
Who tells the Queen what her MPs are up to?
A government whip, the Vice Chamberlain of the Household, writes the monarch a dispatch every evening to explain what MPs have been debating.
Janet Anderson, who did the job in the early years of the Blair government has published her missives in a volume called Dear Queen, and some of them have been dramatised by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
She spoke to Jo Coburn on the Daily Politics, along with with current occupant of that role, the Conservative MP Kris Hopkins.
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