Consider them and ponder whether this is how you want the nation’s most pressing affairs of state to be organised. One scenario has MPs relocating to different bits of parliament’s footprint while the works are executed, occupying the House of Lords during the redoing of the Commons chamber. There is precedent for this during the blitz when the House of Commons was bombed; many a Churchillian line such as “we will fight them on the beaches” was uttered from the red benches of the Lords rather than the Commons’ green benches.