Anger over plans to boot MPs out of the House of Commons as Westminster gets £4bn refurb during Brexit negotiations
Officials want them to move to a makeshift home for six years but MPs fear we will become a laughing stock
ANGRY MPs are to revolt over plans to kick them out of the crumbling House of Commons.
Officials want them to move for six years while the Palace of Westminster gets a £4billion refurb.
But some MPs fear running Britain “from a Portakabin” as we quit the EU will make us a world laughing stock.
At least 80 are threatening to vote against the proposals, instead demanding repairs are carried out on weekends and holidays.
Tory Shailesh Vara said: “At a time when we are eager to make new international friends, it would be absurd to leave this iconic building.”
Experts have warned of “catastrophic failure” in the next ten years without urgent action. Emergency repairs already cost £100million a year.
A joint committee of peers and MPs wants to move to a temporary home to be constructed in the courtyard of Richmond House, where the Department of Health is based.
Experts claim that if MPs stay put for a staged facelift it will take 32 years and cost £5.7billion.
But some MPs have questioned the figures.
Brexit-backing MP Andrew Bridgen said: “There’s a groundswell of support building up to stay in the palace while work goes on around us.
“The Leavers have suddenly become Remainers when it comes to where Parliament sits.”