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George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes at Westminster.

Parliament completed its September fortnight sitting and MPs set out their stalls for the party conference season.

First up was a group of roughly 100 Conservative MPs s who want to look again at the European Union and re-assess its workings.
Andrea Leadsom is a founder of the group and Charles Grant runs the Centre for European Reform. .What kind of change do Andrea and colleagues require and are they realistic?

One of Alistair Darling's last tasks as chancellor was to attend an EU Finance Ministers meeting on the Greek debt crisis. Why, in his view, is the crisis still unresolved?

The boundary Commission published its proposals for changes to constituencies in England and Northern Ireland. Many MPs are dismayed. Robert Hayward who is an independent expert on boundary changes and a former Conservative MP, discusses the impact of the proposals with Scottish Labour MP Sheila Gilmore, and Liberal Democrat MP Dan Rogerson.

Simon Hughes argues that the Liberal Democrats have got better at being in government, and Professor Peter John explains why David Cameron has got a unit in Downing St to help "nudge" people into a sense of civic responsibility.

The Editor is Marie Jessel.