Newsnight 28 November

Presented by Gavin Esler.

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Assembly election

And the winner is .... The Reverend Dr Ian Paisley? Northern Irish politics was set to be turned on its head. We were expecting to have the full Assembly election results and things were looking bad for both the SDLP and David Trimble's Ulster Unionists.

The big conversation

Also it may sound like a childrens' TV format but according to Tony Blair "the big conversation" is a deeply serious attempt to find out what we, the public, think should be done to improve the country. So real engagement or publicity stunt? We talked to one of the ministers behind the idea.

Click here for our interview with the minister

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