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The Guardian - UK
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Presented by Tom Clark and produced by Francesca Panetta

Politics Weekly podcast: MPs' expenses, AV and smoking

This week we hear the final verdict from Sir Thomas Legg on the MPs' expenses scandal. Journalists may be tired of the story, but Catherine Bennett thinks the public has an insatiable appetite for it.

This week Gordon Brown finally asked parliament for a referendum on electoral form. So what does our panel think of the proposed Alternative Vote system? Nick Cohen thinks it's just a ploy to woo the Lib Dems and that it's a potty idea and Michael White, who sat in on prime minister's questions this week, tells us that it's business and that maybe we are heading for a hung parliament.

Finally we discuss the government's proposals this week to crank up their campaign against smoking. Cohen is incensed, calling it Fabian control gone mad. Tom Happold however, thinks it makes sense for Labour as it is their people who are dying.

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