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Newsnight – The Mother Of All Government Blunders

Paxman hosts a Newsnight discussion / cross-examination on the evening of a government confession that the personal and financial records of 25 million UK citizens have been pumped out of a central database, burnt onto a couple of compact discs, and then lost....
A Labour spokeswoman is given the unenviable task of defending the indefensible. Listen to the Cambridge prof - not only does he speak absolute sense, but you have to admire the manner in which he calmly conveys to the viewer: "We tried to tell the government not to put all the eggs in one basket, but the arrogant bastards wouldn't listen".....

Duration : 0:9:45

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