Social distancing rules have forced the UK parliament to embrace technology, transforming its traditional debating chamber into a modern videoconferencing hub
LONDON - After 600 years of painstakingly slow evolution, Britain’s parliament took a leap into the future when the coronavirus pandemic struck, transforming its deeply traditional debating chamber into a modern videoconferencing hub.
“It’s like a giant TV studio,” said Matthew Hamlyn, a senior parliamentary official who helps manage proceedings in the House of Commons. “Only, rather than having your six guests on ... you have maybe 60, all over the country.” This week members conducted their first ever remote vote, eschewing a complicated and archaic system of lawmakers physically walking through voting corridors to register their approval or disapproval.
The future of the new system, always billed as a temporary fix rather than a permanent step, remains in the balance.
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