Parliamentarians Say Palace of Westminster Will ‘Become a Museum’ if They Move to QEII Conference Centre – Guido Fawkes

Parliamentarians Say Palace of Westminster Will ‘Become a Museum’ if They Move to QEII Conference Centre

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The long-running farce of renovating the Palace of Westminster is about to become even more of a clown show. MPs and Peers will vote later this year on which option to go for: fully moving out while works take place, moving the Lords out, or staying in and having building work done around them. None of them are cheap, all of them are going to cause a lot of fuss…

Now PoliticsHome reports the House of Lords is set firmly to move to the QEII Centre while Parliament is restored. The idea has been raised before – but doing so will end up costing billions of pounds. Is that really justified to move a two minute walk from the Palace?

The Commons Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle is said to be arguing that parliamentarians should remain on the estate while works are completed. Many MPs and Peers Guido has spoken to fear that if they are moved out, officials and parliamentary bigwigs will move in and spot the opportunity to turn the palace itself into a profit-making museum. Others don’t care, arguing that a more modern set of buildings would be to parliament’s advantage. Either way, it’s going to be a humiliating spectacle for MPs and Peers, shifting the burden onto hard-pressed working Brits with tax at all-time-highs…