Britain’s ‘secret parliament’ celebrates its 80th birthday

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LONDON — Eighty years ago on Thursday, British lawmakers driven from their debating chamber by World War Two Nazi bombs secretly set up a new home less than 100 yards away, from where Prime Minister Winston Churchill ran the country’s wartime government. Unbeknown to the British public, on June 24, 1941, elected lawmakers from the […]

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