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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Probe finds no evidence Nadine Dorries's damaging claim about Channel 4 is true

A lengthy probe has found no evidence to back up Tory Nadine Dorries’ damaging claims about a Channel 4 show.

The Culture Secretary, who is the minister responsible for TV, had claimed “paid actors” impersonated poor people on a deprived estate for a reality show.

Ms Dorries stayed on the West London estate to film Tower Block of Commons in 2010, and told MPs she "discovered later they were actually actors".

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