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Stephen Dixon hits out at Home of Lords for ‘ridiculously costly’ buy: ‘We now have no cash!’

Editorial Board Published June 13, 2025
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The door on the Friends’ Entrance, which started a multi-year safety improve in 2023, has seen its prices spiral dramatically.

Chief of the Home of Lords Baroness Smith revealed yesterday that the preliminary estimate of £6.1million elevated to £9.6million.

Stephen Dixon stated ‘in this country we have no money’

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“Would you imagine it prices £10million? It’s meant to be this door and it’s all safe. It’s all very excessive tech.

“It’s got all swipes and opens along with your passes and all that form of factor. Very, very excessive tech. It doesn’t work.

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“It doesn’t work. So they now had to employ a member of staff to stand by it at all times and press the button.”

Paul Coyte requested: “How can any door cost £10million?”

Stephen stated: “I’ll inform you the way it can value £10million. As a result of they’re not spending their very own cash, are they?

“So they are saying, would you want that one or would you want that one? Does it include a knocker?

“One peer Lord Forsyth called the project a complete white elephant and disaster.”

Ellie Costello stated: “You’d think it would be gold plated for £10million. Well, hopefully they can get a refund if you spent that much money.”

The safety improve was amongst suggestions following the Westminster terror assault in 2017.

Regardless of the inflated price range, the door stays non-functional, requiring handbook operation by employees.

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The Home of Lords has had a brand new door placed on

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A Home of Lords spokesperson said works had been beneath strategy to “resolve ongoing issues with the door at Peers’ Entrance, at no extra cost to the public”.

Throughout yesterday’s debate within the Home of Lords, friends expressed fierce criticism of the venture.

Conservative peer Lord Forsyth referred to as it “a complete white elephant and a disaster” and revealed that regardless of warnings from numerous members “from all sides of the House” that the design wouldn’t work and would end in individuals queuing outdoors, authorities insisted it had been “carefully designed”.

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