I honestly don't understand the logic of this kind of hateful bollocks. It won't win over Reform voters (why choose dilute fascism when Farage offers the real thing?), and it alienates everyone else.
I can only speculate that the Labour right is achieving Trussite levels of delusion and groupthink.

The irony will be bleakly amusing in a few years if/when a far-right Faragist government uses Mahmood's rhetoric and legislation as cover to start deporting her family to Pakistan. Many on the right want that, and every day this kind of behaviour from Labour normalises it and makes it more likely.

However, as pointed out, the longer the delay, the more it will cost, & if Parliament remains in situ while work progresses in stages, as has been suggested (a lunatic plan), it will probably take decades and cost trillions.

Given the nature of the clients, massive cost overruns, delays, etc, are inevitable. The project will run for longer than the electoral cycle, meaning a new ruling party with different priorities is likely to arrive partway through. The inevitable legal disputes alone will have eye-watering costs.

To bring a project like this in at anywhere near cost estimates, you need highly detailed condition information on which to base designs & project & cost plans, a first-rate project team with a firm grip on costs, + a client who understands what they want, what they are doing & what they can afford.

Cost estimates currently being mooted are mostly just informed guesswork. In my experience of historic building projects, guesses at this stage are usually on the optimistic side (to avoid frightening clients, etc) & tend to be much lower than the final bill.

A couple of years ago, my former colleagues reviewed parts of the HoP's building services installations. Experienced mechanical and electrical engineers, they were horrified by the state of the wiring, pipework, etc, & that was a superficial visual inspection that did not involve any opening up.

However, it is impossible to develop accurate cost plans for refurbishing occupied listed buildings, such as this, until you can take down ceilings, drill holes in walls, etc., to obtain precise condition information. This will be a massive undertaking & impossible to do properly in occupied areas.

Refurbishing the HoP is vital. It is a fire trap just waiting for a spark. Given its nature & the absence of modern fire precautions, fire could get out of control very quickly. A major fire will be disastrous for central London, as it is full of toxic material: asbestos, lead, arsenic, etc.

I will be astonished if neither Epstein nor Alzheimer takes him out before the end of the year. And I don't think he, or his handlers, have really thought about all the evidence that will be placed on the public record for this to go to court. That is, if the BBC/Govt doesn't just roll over first.

One of my favourite actors, but I was today many years old when I realised Bernard Hill was in I Claudius. Theoden King, Yosser Hughes and Gratus the Praetorian, he certainly had range.

Not so much, the lunatics have taken over the (Labour) asylum as the unhinged racists that have always lurked in the right wing of the party are well and truly out of the closet.