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Alicia McCarthy reports on political events at Westminster, where MPs debate the honours system, and whether it's right to strip fallen bankers of their knighthoods.

Alicia McCarthy reports on political events at Westminster, where MPs debate the honours system - and whether it's right to strip fallen bankers of their knighthoods.

The Immigration Minister appears before the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Affairs Committee to answer questions about lengthy queues at Britain's airports.

MPs and peers continue to debate the contents of the Queen's Speech, which set out the Government's law-making plans for the next year.

And in the Lords, a Conservative former Foreign Secretary warns of a "deeply confusing shambles" of the UK using a mixture of metric and imperial measurements.

28 minutes

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Wed 16 May 2012 08:31

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