The majority of Britons believe that the public should not have to pay for the £369 million refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, a YouGov poll commissioned for The Times has found.

Of the 2,500 adults questioned, 56 per cent said that the government should not contribute to the renovations, while only 29 per cent said that it was right for taxpayers to fund it. The 775-room palace is undergoing a ten-year “reservicing” programme which began in 2017.

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  2. We do need to repair our historic buildings and given the gov receives the revenue from tourism to BP I do feel it’s right the gov pays.

    Unfortunate that most people don’t feel the same

  3. Honestly 56% of 2,000 people is easily within a margin of error half-half. I’m actually surprised it’s not higher, even if it is in reality a case of keeping more funds from the Crown Estates for two years via the Sovereign Grant rather than increasing taxes on working people.

  4. I don’t know the financing details between the BRF and the British Government but if future tax revenue from Buckingham Palace’s commercial activities is able to completely offset this capital expenditure, then it should be okay to go ahead. The British public is essentially just putting up the upfront costs of repairing a historical building and will be recovering those costs via tax revenue in X years in the future.

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