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21/03/2013

Sean Curran and the 大象传媒 parliamentary team report as a row breaks out over the Chancellor's Budget plan to help homebuyers get mortgages.

The Shadow Chancellor says a Budget initiative designed to help homebuyers obtain mortgages amounts to a "spare homes subsidy" for the better-off.
The Business Secretary says the details have to be worked out and accuses Ed Balls of hypocrisy and having presided over an unprecedented housing bubble.
The House of Lords debates the budget and peers are told to ask shorter question.
And the Foreign Secretary insists that elections in Afghanistan and Pakistan will not interrupt the process of restoring security to the region.
Sean Curran and team report on today's events in Parliament.

30 minutes

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Thu 21 Mar 2013 23:30

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