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Jacqui Smith, former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Secretary

Andrew Neil interviews Jacqui Smith, former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Secretary.

Andrew Neil interviews Jacqui Smith, former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Secretary. Jacqui Smith talks about her background and selection as a Parliamentary candidate through an all-woman shortlist. They discuss her time as Chief Whip at a time of tension over the Labour Party leadership, and then her role in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet as the first female ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Secretary, including the controversial policies over ID cards and 42-days detention, and the arrest of Damian Green MP. They move on to her resignation as ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Secretary in the controversy over her parliamentary allowances and finally her decision to stand again in Redditch at the next general election.

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