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To find out more, search Barclays communities. On today's new statesman podcast we discuss workers going back to their offices and

you ask us what impact does the BBC have on UK politics

and how would damaging it affect that?

So summer recess is over and MPs are returning to Westminster and there are a number of challenges that they're coming back to.

But this week it seems to be one of the subjects of at the top of everyone's priorities

which is the debate around getting office workers to return to their offices rather

than working from home and we've seen that sort of there's been talk of potentially trying to help companies if they're worried about being sued by employees who end up contracting coronavirus, but generally it's just sort of ministers trying to express. in about this on the podcast before and it has kind of been a running subject ever since the lockdown measures were originally eased.

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