By Lucy Caulkett-
Kensington’s Labour MP Emma Dent Coad, has called for the Queen to move out of Buckingham Palace because public money should not be spent on a wealthy family.
The MP was critical about the fact the taxpayer is funding the refurbishment of the Queen’s central London palace. She said: “there are other places they could live”. Buckingham Palace is undergoing a 10 year refurbishment costing the public £369m. The prince and his wife, as well as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, live in Ms Dent Coad’s constituency at Kensington Palace.
The MP said she did not think the public should be paying “a third of a billion a year for people who have immense wealth already”.
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Outspoken with a history of criticising the Royal family, Coad expressed a strong objection to the refurbishment cost of Buckingham Palace which she believes to be excessive and unreasonable for just three members of the Royal Family living there. She told Parliament’s House magazine:
“If the public purse is to pay a third of a billion to restore this incredible, beautifully endowed palace, we should have access to it.
“It’s as simple as that. There are other places they could live. I think it will then belong to us if we pay for it. “They’re part of that world of people who have immense privilege.
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“I don’t think we should be paying a third of a billion a year for people who have immense wealth already.
“They’ve got 150, 200 bedrooms or something, and then we don’t have access to the whole building,” she told The House magazine.
“If the public purse is to pay a third of a billion to restore this incredible, beautifully endowed palace, we should have access to it. It’s as simple as that.
“There are other places they could live. I think it will then belong to us if we pay for it.” She added that “most people” find it “unconscionable” as to why the public is “funding a family who have immense wealth”.
There are many members of the public who would agree with the outspoken Mp, but the
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