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A tea room in Parliament may be renamed after a popular member of the catering staff who died last week, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said.
Julia Clifford, 54, known to colleagues as Julie, contracted Covid-19 shortly after finishing cancer treatment.
Sir Lindsay has asked the House authorities to consider renaming the Members Tea Room as Julia s Tea Room.
He said Ms Clifford, who joined the Commons staff in 1985, would never, ever be forgotten . The tea room will never be the same, that smiling face, someone who was happy, somebody who used to speak to us, somebody who was always there, no matter how down this House was, said Sir Lindsay.
Fake emails sent to MPs totally unacceptable - Lindsay Hoyle
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Fake emails sent to MPs by university researchers were totally unacceptable , Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said.
Professor Rosie Campbell of King s College London said the study aimed to find out how MPs treat constituents.
She apologised if we misjudged the imposition this would place on staff.
One MP said the project showed a lack of understanding of the pressures facing our office s resources a year into a global pandemic .
Labour s Sarah Owen said: As our constituents lives have been thrown into uncertainty by Covid, our staff teams have been dealing with more cases than ever.