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Mark Valladares

From our Lords Correspondent: another step towards the restoration of the Palace of Westminster

By Mark Valladares | Mon 6th August 2018 - 10:45 am

Six months ago, in my increasingly erratic reporting of events in the House of Lords, I touched upon the debate on the restoration and refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster.

So, what happened next?

There was agreement that, as bits of the building were either falling on people or were in danger of burning down or filling with sewage (or both at the same time), that it was really high time that Parliament vacated the building so that it could be modernised for the new age, with technology built in and new services …

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