British lawmakers will form a long queue snaking through parliament on Tuesday to decide whether to ditch the system of remote voting and parliament-by-videoconference that has allowed scrutiny of the government's coronavirus response.
FILE PHOTO: General view during the weekly question time debate at the Parliament, during the hybrid parliament session amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in London, Britain, April 22, 2020. ©UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS
In April, the House of Commons announced changes that allowed its 650 lawmakers to question ministers by video link, and in May the house held its first remote vote - casting aside centuries of tradition in a building known worldwide for adversarial debates and arcane procedures. On Tuesday lawmakers will decide on the new system of voting - by holding a vote in which they will line up, two metres apart, in a queue expected to snake out of the debating chamber, down ornate hallways and into an 11th century hall where kings and queens have lain in state.
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