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Building bricks of democracy

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / May 18 2000: Building bricks of democracy

Want to know why the House of Commons still has an adversarial layout, perfectly suited to the weekly verbal jousts between Tony Blair and William Hague? The answer is that it's an accident of history, rather than an arrangement devised for head-to-head political combat at the dispatch box.

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