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European. As I record this, Britain's nurses are on a nationwide strike for the first time

in the 106-year history of the Royal College of Nursing. If only there was a big pool of money

that we'd save from somewhere that we could use to pay the nurses, you know, maybe the equivalent

of 350 million pounds a week, something like that. Joining me today to assess the damage from another year of Brexit,

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