He said he stays alert on late-night trips with soda, tea, and the Parliament cigarettes he keeps tucked in the dashboard.
A gift shop would be handy - tourists always love to buy such trinkets as parliament tea towels and miniature statues (and it should be stocked with interesting political and historical books as well).
Mohamed Anacko, the head of the regional parliament, sips tea at a friend's house.
The passage by Parliament of the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies, gave Adams ample opportunity to exercise his remarkable talents.
Parliament passed the Tea Act, in May of 1773, in order to bail out the East India Company, which, with a surplus of tea and stiff competition from smugglers, was facing bankruptcy.
In 1773 Parliament passed a Tea Act designed to aid the financially troubled East India Company by granting it (1) a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies, (2) an exemption on the export tax, and (3) a "drawback" (refund) on duties owed on certain surplus quantities of tea in its possession.
Angela Merkel will use a high-profile visit to London on Thursday, in which she will address a joint session of parliament and have tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, to plead with the British people to remain members of the European Union.
In May 1773, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act, a tax law to help the struggling East India Company, one of Great Britain's most important commercial institutions.
Benn himself, earlier, said of his own long experience of not "selling out": "My father used to say, 'Dare to be a Daniel, dare to stand alone.'" Watching them meet for tea in the mother of Parliaments, pop and politics briefly look like honest trades.
Finish your day with an indulgent afternoon tea at Bettys Cafe Tea Room on Parliament Street (01423 814070, bettys.co.uk) which has been serving tea and cakes since 1919.
