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Appointment of TV's Mary 'Queen of shops' Portas to fix nation's high-streets suggests desperate ministers reaching for the remote.

Less contrary than Mary

If the answer to all our complex public policy issues is straight-talking TV celebrities, Diary suggests finding some different problems to answer.

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