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The Guardian - UK
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Presented by Allegra Stratton and Tom Clark and produced by Iain Chambers

Politics Weekly podcast: Housing benefit and the 'Highland clearance' of London

Columnists Polly Toynbee, Julian Glover and reporter Hélène Mulholland join regular hosts Allegra Stratton and Tom Clark to ask: will the coalition wobble on housing benefit cuts?

The changes to housing benefit include a 10% cut for those out of work for more than a year and an overall cap of £250 a week for a one-bedroom property, rising to £400 a week for a four-bedroom or larger home.

Critics say the coalition's housing benefit cuts will displace 200,000 people from Britain's major metropolitan areas, ghettoising the poor.

Plus: what do Nick Clegg's Desert Island Discs say about our deputy PM ... and about spin?

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