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Welcome to the rest of this politics question time with me, Rory Stewart and me, Alice Campbell.

Now here's the first one, Rudolf Hucka. How long are manifestos valid for? Are they actually

worth the paper they're written on or are they more an aspirational wish list that can

be ignored a week after the election as quotes, circumstances of change or quotes, the state

of finances was worse than we expected? Well, they are things that obviously matter

because they can be used. They can be used a great deal in terms of the civil service.

We've talked about some of the problems with ministers and civil servants, but where

civil servants are very clear is that if something's in a manifesto, they're very clear

that they need to deliver it. And one of the easiest ways of getting policy through as

a minister is if you can say it's in the manifesto and it's sometimes quite difficult

getting policy through that isn't in the manifesto from that point of view. It matters

also in terms of the House of Lords. There's a convention in the House of Lords, doesn't

block legislation that's in the manifesto. And it's also can be used by the whips to

impose a three-line weapon members to say, look, this was in the manifesto you've got

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