{"id":623,"date":"2021-02-21T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/hybrid-houses-could-the-uk-parliament-remain-partly-virtual\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:02:50","slug":"hybrid-houses-could-the-uk-parliament-remain-partly-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/hybrid-houses-could-the-uk-parliament-remain-partly-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid houses: could the UK parliament remain partly virtual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Lords has embraced Covid-safe representation more than Commons, but many MPs support change<\/p>\n<p>When the House of Lords began holding virtual proceedings during the first lockdown last spring, there was a spate of videos popular on social media showing peers struggling with mute buttons or interrupted by computerised voices. But, 10 months on, it could be the upper house that has the last laugh.<\/p>\n<p>While the Commons and the Lords now hold so-called hybrid sittings, where members can participate in the chamber or by video link, it is the Lords \u2013 with an average age of 70 \u2013 that has seemingly embraced the modern era more thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/feb\/21\/hybrid-houses-could-the-uk-parliament-remain-partly-virtual\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/efe32b6954b3181abed97a74592c840ec024c5ad\/122_0_1680_1008\/master\/1680.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bc5b00b668d120251e0f0fa4c351d700\" title=\"Hybrid houses: could the UK parliament remain partly virtual?\" \/>House Lords has embraced Covid-safe representation more than Commons, but many MPs support change<br \/>\nWhen the House of Lords began holding virtual proceedings during the first lockdown last spring, there was a spate of videos popular on social media showing peers struggling with mute buttons or interrupted by computerised voices. But, 10 months on, it could be the upper house that has the last laugh.<br \/>\nWhile the Commons and the Lords now hold so-called hybrid sittings, where members can participate in the chamber or by video link, it is the Lords \u2013 with an average age of 70 \u2013 that has seemingly embraced the modern era more thoroughly. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Lords has embraced Covid-safe representation more than Commons, but many MPs support change When the House of Lords began holding virtual proceedings during the first lockdown last spring, there was a spate of videos popular on social media showing peers struggling with mute buttons or interrupted by computerised voices. But, 10 months on, it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/hybrid-houses-could-the-uk-parliament-remain-partly-virtual\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hybrid houses: could the UK parliament remain partly virtual?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}