Schools need more government money to help children left without a full term of education says Robert Halfon, Conservative MP for Harlow and chair of the education select committee.

Halfon joins Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Caroline Hepker to discuss the problems of pupils left behind by the virus crisis, and also how MPs can best work now in a socially-distanced parliament.

Plus Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general at the Royal United Services Institute reflects on the risks of a cash-strapped government being tempted to slash the defence budget.

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