‘These guys like to be written about’: The art of parliamentary sketchwriting, with Rob Hutton

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In this bonus edition of Parliament Matters, Mark and Ruth talk to Rob Hutton, columnist and sketchwriter for The Critic Magazine, about the way he practices one of Britain's oldest journalistic arts, sketching the proceedings of Parliament.

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