@smarteruk: In 1851 the Crystal Palace went up in under a year. Kemi Badenoch says Britain now takes a decade to add a staircase to a railway station, and blames regulation piled on "year after year". Her own Victorian example cuts both ways: Parliament's palace was estimated at six years and took more than 30. So what's really holding Britain back, and who should get a say before the next big project starts? A continuous excerpt of Kemi Badenoch's own video, reframed for vertical. Two images in her edit were replaced with our own. Source: Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Conservative Party, video posted 19 October 2026. Images: The Crystal Palace, Dickinson Brothers, 1852 (public domain); "Houses under construction, Albion Street, Southwick" by Mutney, CC BY 4.0. #SmarterUK #UKPolitics #Badenoch #Conservatives #Planning

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