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Can politics be bipartisan?

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Can politics be bipartisan? US President-elect Barack Obama has reached out to Republicans in appointing key jobs, and in the UK, when Gordon Brown became PM last year he promised a new more bipartisan style of government. Conservative MP Peter Luff and former Labour minister Nick Raynsford discuss if the political system can rise above party politics.

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