Boris Johnson was handed a humiliating slapdown over his plan to move the House of Lords to York on Wednesday. The Prime Minister wants the body behind Parliament’s ongoing refurbishment to look into shifting the upper chamber to the North.
But he was told it was not his place to make such a move in a stinging rebuke from the Speakers of both the Lords and the Commons.
Mr Johnson wrote to Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Sponsor Body - responsible for reviewing plans to refurbish the crumbling Palace of Westminster.
But the body replied reminding the PM any such move would have “constitutional implications…which makes this a matter for both Houses to determine rather than for our review".
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