OUR PLASTIC PARLIAMENT . . .

THE Mother of Parliaments has a lot to answer for when it comes to plastic waste, according to Zac Goldsmith, the 43-year-old Tory MP for Richmond Park.

Goldsmith is backing a new national campaign calling for a Plastic Free Parliament. Zac fumes that each year two million ‘plastic straws and stirrers, coffee cups and lids, condiment sachets, plastic cutlery and disposable plastic water bottles are all still used across the Palace of Westminster estate, all of which can be eliminated.’

They could do with eliminating some of the plastic MPs, too.