In a sign of the times you can’t even go to the bog any more in parliament. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete strikes again…
It’s still coming up in the Commons. Raac was first discovered in “one area of the palace” back in 2023. It has since popped up around the place. Male residents of Upper Committee Corridor North have today found themselves barred from the bog thanks to “RAAC issues.” They’ve got to cart themselves down to the central lobbies for the loos there. What a stinker…

The cost of repairing crumbling parliament will overshoot the entire England and Wales police budget by quite some way, as well as taking 70 years. That’s a lot of extended trips to the working loos. Just in case you thought the place was glamorous…
UPDATE: Parliamentary authorities have got rid of the RAAC sign now. The bog is still locked.
Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: “We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We saw the results in Aberdeen South: 50% of the vote. Because we can unite the country… It’s about uniting the country, for God’s sake, behind a centre-right agenda.”