Many legislatures experimented with remote or hybrid sittings during the pandemic, but virtually all have since reverted to meeting in person
. If MPs can vote, debate, ask questions and attend committee hearings remotely, why should they bother to show up in the flesh?
Indeed, it’s a wonder we ever insisted they meet in the first place. Remote voting has been possible since at least the telegraph. As for the rest, surely MPs could make their views known by issuing statements, holding news conferences, writing letters to the editor and the like. What’s the big deal about sitting them all together in the same room?
No one who has sat in the gallery of the House of Commons, however jaded about politics they may have become, can fail to be moved by the sight of those 338 MPs arrayed below them, from every corner of this absurdly distended country, of all heritages, a civics-class cliché come gloriously to life. When a minister is in trouble, forced to stand and answer questions from a howling opposition, they are engaged in a ritual demonstration of humility before the voters. It is theatre, but it istheatre, through which the public is engaged and instructed in the controversies of the day.
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