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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The art of Hansard

It must be a tough job providing a verbatim (edited) record of proceedings in the House of Commons, especially when there is such a range of accents, dialects and slang words being used by MPs. It is hardly surprising that at times the person preparing the record gives up and asks the member what they actually said, as happened here:


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