He has a picture in his office reminding him of his journey
At first glance, Vernon Coaker's office is how you would expect a work space occupied by a member of the House of Lords to look. There is a picture of him shaking hands with Barack Obama, various awards dotted around the room, and all of it is complemented by a breath-taking view of the parliamentary estate.
He said: "That Costa Brava Cafe is derelict now. It just reminds me, not that I am from dereliction, but it's great to think that there I was playing pinball at a cafe in West London and now I'm in the House of Lords. He took us to the oldest part of the parliamentary estate, Westminster Hall, where the Queen lay in state for hundreds of thousands of members of the public to pay their respects. Standing on the very spot where the coffin was placed, Lord Coaker says that the occasion was a perfect example of the history that Parliament holds.
Within the space of around 10 minutes on our visit to the House of Lords, former Home Secretary David Blunkett said hello, we shook hands with former Chancellor and Conservative Rushcliffe MP Ken Clarke and had a brief chat with Lord Richard Dannatt, the former head of the British Army. "He's sat there next to me on the benches and he's a war hero. When you look around the chamber you see lots of people, some of whom are quite elderly, some of whom are quite frail.
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