Construction industry gossip: Quick bites

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2021-04-16T05:00:00

The home front

The home front

House of Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks there’s no need to move MPs and peers out of the Palace of Westminster while work to upgrade it is carried out. Last month, a review of the plan suggested otherwise. Doing so, it said, would save billions in taxpayers’ money and mean the job is done more quickly. Rees-Mogg made clear what he thought of the idea. “For the birds,” he said. Instead, he thinks virtual sessions of parliament could continue by video link. Problem solved. Was this the same Rees-Mogg who last year wanted to recall MPs to parliament during lockdown to demonstrate “British resolution and fortitude”?

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