A-Z of Parliament with Quentin Letts: W for whips

19 October 2012 Last updated at 05:08 ET Help

Quentin Letts works through the alphabet of the strange world of the UK Parliament as he looks at the work of the whips and how they exercise some control over backbench MPs.

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