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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

‘It makes me a better MP’: British politicians get lessons in meditation

A woman in a meditation pose at sunset outside
Several MPs have said that mindfulness practice has had a positive impact on their work. Photograph: PeopleImages/Getty Images/iStockphoto

More than 300 British politicians have been trained in mindfulness in the last decade, new estimates have suggested, sparking fresh calls for a meditation room to be installed in parliament.

About 120 MPs, including Tracey Crouch, the Conservative former minister and Clive Lewis, of Labour, plus about 180 peers have joined courses in the secular practice, which is rooted in ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, a new report has found.

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