Parliament repairs should start 'immediately'
MPs and peers are being asked to move out of the Houses of Parliament for up to eight years for a 拢3.5 billion restoration to take place.
But up to 100 MPs from across the political parties are backing an alternative plan to allow them to remain in the Palace of Westminster while work is carried out around them.
In a film for the Daily Politics soapbox series, Conservative MP Shailesh Vara said there is enough room for them to stay while repairs are carried out: "I am suggesting work commences immediately while we remain on site."
Duration:
This clip is from
Featured in...
Soapbox films—Daily Politics
Authored films from politicians and commentators on a subject that gets them fired up.
More clips from 16/01/2017
-
Is politics being commercialised?
Duration: 01:52
-
Will UK and US agree quick post-Brexit trade deal?
Duration: 10:26
More clips from Daily Politics
-
Bone and Pound get mood box views—24/07/2018
Duration: 03:14
-
Goodbye to the Daily Politics after 15 years—24/07/2018
Duration: 10:18
-
New political party and splits in existing ones?—23/07/2018
Duration: 02:58
-
What is Labour doing about anti-Semitism?—23/07/2018
Duration: 02:21