A modern parliament doesn’t need a brand new building | Letter

Careful conservation architects and engineers are what’s required, not grandiosity and ego, writes Judith Martin Roy Appleyard (Letters, 1 March), who believes the Palace of Westminster should be pulled down and replaced with a modern building, cites the Scottish and Welsh parliaments as exemplars. He has forgotten the financial saga of the building of the Scottish parliament? The Scotsman reported in 2003 that it had achieved possibly the most embarrassing accolade, being ranked as one of