The bars reserved exclusively for MPs and peers – in the deeper recesses of the ancient building – such as the Pugin Room or the Members' Smoking Room (which is now non-smoking) may have the feel of a ...

Strangers bar, located on the Westminster estate near the House of Commons, is a private pub open to MPs, their staff and other parliamentary workers. It has been the source of several political ...

The decision comes after Labour’s Westminster MP led calls for CCTV to be installed in Parliament’s bars, after a woman’s drink was allegedly spiked on the parliamentary estate. In January ...

A parliamentary bar will be reopened with CCTV following an alleged drink-spiking incident. Strangers’ Bar, a popular ...

Westminster needs to “radically reshape” its culture if it is to tackle sexual misconduct, an MP has warned as Parliament’s ...

Lucy Powell maintains Strangers’ Bar should reopen after police finish probe into alleged drink-spiking incident ...

Westminster's drinking culture is in the spotlight after a bar was closed over an alleged spiking incident. Commons leader Lucy Powell says she is open to debate about bars in Parliament but they ...

The alleged incident took place at the Stranger’s Bar in the Palace of Westminster in early January, POLITICO reported. A Parliament spokesman told the outlet: “We are aware of an incident ...

"Strangers' Bar will close from Monday January 20 while ... spiking after receiving reports of an incident in the Palace of Westminster at around 6.30pm on January 7. The woman, a parliamentary ...

The closure of Strangers' bar, in the House of Commons, while an alleged spiking incident is investigated has thrown the spotlight on Westminster's drinking culture and what goes on in its many ...