Artworks including portraits of Benjamin Disraeli and the leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade are missing from the Houses of Parliament, it can be revealed.
The photograph of Queen Victoria‘s favourite prime minister is one of more than 65 works which House of Commons authorities are looking for, along with a 19th-century print of William Wilberforce.
A photograph of Britain’s first female foreign secretary, Labour‘s Margaret Beckett, is also on the list, as is a satirical cartoon depicting Harold Wilson’s effective deputy, Barbara Castle, as Florence Nightingale.
Parliament indicated the pieces, missing since 2024, may have been lost while being
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