Bonus episode | Inside the Virtual Parliament

For the first time in its history, the UK Parliament has been embracing remote methods of working as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Select Committees, Prime Minister’s Questions, and, even, voting has been moved online despite historical resistance to modernisation within Parliament. This event explored the creation and deployment of the so-called ‘Virtual Parliament’ with insights from Abena Oppong-Asare MP (Labour Party); Hannah Bardell MP (Scottish National Party); Naz Shah MP (Labour Party); Matt Stutely (Director of Software Engineering, Parliament Digital Service); Nikola Spicer (Head of Software Delivery, Parliament Digital Service); and Areeq Chowdhury (WebRoots Democracy). This discussion took place in May 2020.