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Helen and Stephen look back at the parliamentary year – taking in discussion of new parties, luxury communism and climate change – and decide it has been a good year for elephants but almost no one else. Then Helen interviews the author Laurence Scott about his new book Picnic Comma Lightning. And you ask them: should parliament cancel recess to work on Brexit?
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