House Hoff Commons

Earlier this month actor and musician David Hasselhoff visited Westminster. He gives his impressions of meeting the prime minister and walking the corridors of power.

I’ve always said that politics and show business are very similar, so when my old mate David Morris MP invited me to Parliament I was keen to come. The history of the building is awesome and there is the sort of atmosphere that you only get from something really old.

First we went into the Lords and saw the frescos on the walls of the Royal Gallery, and the statue of Queen Victoria in the Prince’s Chamber. Having an unelected House of Lords that used to serve as your Supreme Court seems strange for an American, but you can’t deny that it’s an awesome place. I loved the curtain in the public gallery that was put in because women wore mini-skirts up there.

We then went to the House of Commons and I was amazed at the new statue of Margaret Thatcher. She was one of the people most responsible for the fall of Communism, and I was there to see the results. I sang my song Freedom as ordinary Germans smashed the Berlin Wall to pieces. It was recently voted the 17th most iconic TV moment of the 20th Century.



The highlight of my visit was meeting the Prime Minister David Cameron. He told me he was a fan of Knight Rider and said he’d always wanted an autographed photo of me. He was very down to earth and we had a quick chat about my new role as a judge at Britain’s Got Talent, which he wished me luck with.

I saw the Chapel of St Mary’s Undercroft, which is just incredible, especially the room where suffragette Emily Wilding Davison slept on Census day. Westminster Hall was impressive but very cold. I hope you heated it when the Pope spoke in there!

David Morris asked me to support the re-opening of Morecambe Winter Gardens which has been closed since 1977. I was really happy to do something to highlight this campaign. Too many music venues are disappearing in the UK and we need to turn the tide on that.

It must be incredible to go to work every day in such an amazing building, and I really appreciated being shown round it. I’d like to thank the people I met on the day, especially David Cameron, but also David Morris MP, Phillip Kienstra (from IPSA), Andre Walker (who did the tour), Thomas Morris, Guy Opperman MP, and Nigel Adams MP.

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