‘A fire hazard of such enormous proportions that every day in Parliament thereafter when I visited the cellars, I was to think how lucky we are to have survived another day’. The ‘guts’ of the Houses of Parliament are in major need of renovation.
Teams of hundreds have been working constantly for decades to patch up the many issues that regularly pop up at the Houses of Parliament
The Palace of Westminster still uses a sewage system that predates the one designed by Joseph Bazalgette for central London Wires that haven’t seen an electrical current in decades hang among the functioning ones. One disused water main pointed out to me was stamped with the year 1945. Hallways that should be wide enough for three people to walk along side by side are so narrow, it can feel claustrophobic going in single file.And there’s something missing that seems so fundamental, I didn’t even think about it until it was mentioned later.
Speaking the day after the fire, then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘You see beautiful buildings like that and think of the beautiful buildings we’ve got in this country. If any of those were destroyed in fire how would we feel about it? ‘The Palace of Westminster, recognised the world over as a symbol of democracy, must be restored for future generations.’
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