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Alicia McCarthy reports on the tensions behind the scenes as ministers try to get new laws on the statute book before the end of the parliamentary session.

Who blinks first? "We used to hope that they would blink - and they used to hope that we would blink. We probably both blinked." A former government chief whip reveals to Alicia McCarthy the tensions behind the scenes as ministers try to get new laws on the statute book before the end of the parliamentary session.

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