Why politicians use certain phrases
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Hamish Thompson, who runs the consultancy 'Heard vs Herd', says politicians borrow such phrases from their counterparts overseas. Every year he compiles a "vexicon" - a lexicon of vexxing political language. Corin Dann spoke to him and started with the popularity and constant deployment of "that's a great question".
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