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From Speaker to Sri Lanka, yesterday in Parliament
spent yesterday afternoon in the environs of the House of Commons. An extraordinary experience. Normally, ostentatiously crawling with MPs and peers anxious to be recognised, stopped and interviewed – yesterday the place was completely deserted.