Opinion | The Guardian•Feb 22
We conduct affairs of state in a building that’s riddled with asbestos and mice. Can’t Britain do any better? | Rupa Huq
Kemi Badenoch, mid-TV interview with Robert Peston at the House of Commons recently, was embarrassingly upstaged by a mouse. Last week, a critical meeting between the prime minister and his more than 400 MPs plus assorted peers (who total another 800) happened in a room only big enough to accommodate 170. The magnificent gold leaf-finished ceiling of central lobby, which gave the world the verb “to lobby”, has visible gaps and reportedly sheds tiny invisible fragments of asbestos, a hazard to health.
