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Community Issues: the Recession

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Hazel Blears on keeping communities united through the recession

The Local Government Channel speaks to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, about why she thinks the recession could either divide or unite communities. And why division could mean a return to the types of riots seen in Brixton in 1981.

 

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