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Politics live blog – Tuesday 5 April
Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen 10.04am: I’ll post more on the social mobility strategy shortly. But first it’s worth noting that Nick Clegg had a couple of interesting things to say about the health bill in his interview with Sky this morning, according to PoliticsHome. • Clegg said that the health bill would be shelved for a couple of months. Yesteday …
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