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Coming to the Lords last week, I could not get out of the Emmeline Pankhurst gate at the northern end of the garden because there was a huge queue waiting to get in through the Black Rod security search point. I have no idea what the event was—I presume it was in the Cholmondeley Room—but the queue reached past the Emmeline Pankhurst gate entrance right down to the bus stop, and because the Corus barriers rightly constrain the pavement, the whole place was jammed solid. My observation of that is not to complain about the delay, nor the person who shouted, “Make way for the bloke in a wheelchair”, but to point out that, if queues for the House of Lords reach down to the learning centre, then terrorists get a double whammy: they can take out hundreds of people from both queues in one go.