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Boris Johnson forced into U-turn over farcical voting plan for MPs

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Boris Johnson has been accused of U-turning over plans for parliamentary votes after they were branded an "absolute farce". The government ended the remote voting set up during coronavirus yesterday.

Instead MPs are forced to queue for around 1km, snaking around the Westminster estate and taking more than an hour, in order to keep social distancing.

MPs were angered by what they saw as a waste of time and there were concerns that those who need to shield because of health conditions, or because they are over a certain age, would be disenfranchised.

On Tuesday the leader of the house, Jacob Rees-Mog declined to endorse a proxy vote system, instead saying that vulnerable MPs could be "paired".

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