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Lord Howell of Guildford Excerpts

Monday 2nd November 2015 Lords Chamber

[The Chairman of Committees]

My Lords, it is true that there is a major programme of work across the whole estate and that there will have to be decanting from building to building, but this is being handled with the Chief Whips of the political parties and the Convenor. We are handling it as carefully as possible. I hope I will be here when the work is finished. Whether I shall be in this position I know not.

[Lord Howell of Guildford (Con)]

My Lords, I do not think that we need worry about the triumphalism. President Valéry Giscard D’Estaing once told me that, at school, he was taught as a little boy that the Battle of Trafalgar was a minor naval engagement in which the British were stupid enough to lose their admiral.

[The Chairman of Committees]

Well, we all have different perspectives on these matters.