BombedButNotBroken-HouseofCommons

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  • By1945,theHouseofCommonsChamberlayinruins.Ithadbee… By1945,theHouseofCommonsChamberlayinruins.Ithadbeendestroyedfouryearsearlier,ontheworstnightoftheLondonBlitz.OntheanniversaryofthatattackBBCParliamentisscreeningBombedButNotBroken[2011]inwhichMarkD’ArcytellsthestoryofthebombingandsubsequentrebuildingoftheChamber.WhenMPsdebatedthereconstructionSirWinstonChurchilldeclared:“Weshapeourbuildings–andourbuildingsshapeus.”HisinterventionhelpedensurethenewCommonsretaineditstraditionaltwo-sidedlayout,ratherthanswitchingtoacontinental-stylehemicycle.SpeakingagainstthebackgroundofrecentEuropeanhistory,Churchillwasdismissiveofthewayotherparliamentswiththeir“haranguesfromtherostrum”hadfallentofascistsandcommunists.

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