When I spoke to Jon earlier, he had just gotten to his hotel, a modern Marriott just across the street from the Palace of the Parliament, which is apparently the second largest office building in the world after the Pentagon.
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While security at such sites as Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and London's Canary Wharf has been stepped up, efforts to counter terror attacks are by no means as visible in the UK as they presently are in United States.
During the debate, Mr Halfon argued that charging for entry to the clock tower could lead to charges for visits to other parts of the Palace of Westminster during times when Parliament is sitting.
The Hindujas' 12-storey headquarters in Haymarket, with its commanding views of Parliament and Buckingham Palace, proved a magnet for influence-peddlers.
One option that has been firmly ruled out has been the idea of abandoning the Palace of Westminster entirely for a new-build parliament elsewhere.
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, is a complex of buildings in London.
They will be married by the Archbishop of Canterbury before returning to Buckingham Palace in a glass carriage along Parliament Square, Whitehall, Horse Guards Parade and The Mall.
What is apparent is that the law was not framed in parliament but by a team of ideologues in the presidential palace.
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Souq Sharq -- Kuwait's premier mall on the seafront with shops, a movie theater and restaurant -- is near Kuwait's parliament, Foreign Ministry and Sief Palace, the official seat of the emir of Kuwait.
She has arrived at the Palace of Westminster amid much pageantry to perform the ceremony of the state opening of parliament in the House of Lords.
Grandiose ideas, perhaps too easily uttered amid the imperial splendour of Vienna: the Hofburg Palace, Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square) and a parliament building seemingly vast enough to embrace all 8m Austrians, not just their elected representatives.
The new parliament will be built in Edinburgh opposite the former Scottish monarch's residence of Holyrood Palace.
The father-of-two entered parliament in 1997 and is a familiar face in the tea-rooms and cafes in the Palace of Westminster.
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