Houses of Parliament

They will hope to rush it through both Houses of Parliament.

"We found this statistic: half a million people used to walk across Westminster Bridge, take a picture of the Houses of Parliament and then walk back north. The Southbank in 1993-94 was deserted."

"Parliament is a unique place, it's like a village, why shouldn't we have a bar? It's the Houses of Parliament, not Ibiza," one woman, who has worked in Parliament for nearly three decades, tells me.

Police are investigating a report that a woman had her drink spiked in one of the bars in the Houses of Parliament.

The 1930s power station once produced a fifth of London's electricity, including supplying landmarks such as Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament.