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Should applause be allowed in the Commons?

From Robin Cook's resignation and Tony Blair's final PMQs, to John Bercow berating SNP applause and Tessa Jowell's emotional final speech in the Lords, recent Parliamentary history has a growing number of examples of MPs and Peers breaking convention by clapping.

The Westminster Hour's Keith Macdougall has been looking at whether that convention should be scrapped.

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