07/11/2012
With David Cameron away, Nick Clegg deputises at Question Time in the Commons. Rachel Byrne reports on that and on the best of the day's debates in the Commons and the Lords.
With David Cameron away, it was deputies' day at Westminster. Nick Clegg and Harriet Harman trade blows at question-time, over changes to the benefit system and over the future of policing. There are also remarks about the departure of the controversial MP Nadine Dorries to take part in a reality TV programme in Australia. Rachel Byrne has the best of the exchanges.
Also on the programme:
* Alan Soady reports on reaction to the re-election of Barack Obama as United States President.
* Simon Jones covers a Commons debate on discrepancies in pay levels in the National Health Service.
* Peter Mulligan follows the latest session of the ongoing inquiry into the future of banking.
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