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14/01/2014

A Conservative MP defends a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers' money being spent on portraits and sculptures of MPs over the past 17 years.

It's been revealed that around quarter of a million pounds of public money has been spent on portraits, statues and busts of parliamentarians over the past 17 years. Alongside pictures of Tony Blair and speakers of the House, there's one of the Conservative Cabinet minister, Iain Duncan Smith, which cost around 10 thousand pounds and another of Labour MP Diane Abbott, costing nearly 12 thousand. Conservative MP George Hollingbery sits on the Commons Committee which decides who gets portraits.

Plus a rare interview with the only man to have been born inside a North Korean labour camp, who escaped and lived to tell the story.

2 hours

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Tue 14 Jan 2014 10:00

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  • Tue 14 Jan 2014 10:00