Jacob Rees-Mogg Forces MPs Into `Absurd` Giant Socially Distanced Queue To Vote
(World News UK)

Coronavirus has changed everything. Make sense of it all with the Waugh Zone, our evening politics briefing. Sign up now. Jacob Rees-Mogg has forced MPs into a giant socially distanced queue to vote on whether to end the “hybrid” parliament that allows remote voting during the coronavirus pandemic. The spectacle, dubbed the “Mogg conga”, came despite Tory disquiet at the Commons leader’s plans to force MPs back to Westminster if they want to vote, while maintaining social distancing. The first example of the “absurd” new rules saw MPs snaking out of the Commons and into the adjacent Westminster Hall in a queue believed to be up to a kilometre long,...