According to those who know their stuff when it comes to the scorched landscape of domestic politics, there is a prime reason why our elected leaders have yet to address a crisis not even they can pretend isn’t happening: the dangerous deterioration of the Palace of Westminster, with its leaking sewage and dodgy electrics and fast-growing population of rats (a majority of them, we are assured, of the four-legged variety).
For many honourable and not-so-honourable members, the idea of surrendering access to a chamber they consider to be the seat of history is more than flesh, blood and ego ca...