'There’s been a Conservative prime minister in Downing Street in all my years as an MP but I believe the current one may pose the biggest risk to our democracy' CarolineLucas writes for MetroUK
The first thing I was shown was not my office but the pink ribbon where I was to hang up my sword!
I know how they feel. It was exactly the same 10 years ago when I was first elected and new MPs were using the same language – ‘it’s just like Hogwarts’. I remember the first thing I was shown was not my office – that took a month – but the pink ribbon where I was to hang up my sword! Imagine a wand instead and you can see why the world ofThen there’s the formal language, the antiquated voting system and the fact that there are 650 MPs yet room for only 450 to sit down in the Chamber.
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