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17/10/2010

FIFA investigating claims of vote selling for world cups; Chancellor promises a crackdown on benefits; European Parliament vote could give new mums 20 weeks full maternity pay.

FIFA is investigating allegations that two of its officials offered to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Jonathan Calvert from the Sunday Times tells us about the paper's investigation.

The Chancellor George Osborne is promising a crackdown on benefit cheats. Our Chief Political Correspondent John Pienaar talks to us about what might happen in this week's Comprehensive Spending Review.

Women could be entitled to twenty weeks maternity leave on full pay if the European Parliament votes in favour of the proposal later this week. Sylvia Tidy Harris is the Managing Director of Speakers.co.uk. She believes no-one can run a business on this basis.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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