The Honorable gentleman asked if I've ever been to Alton Towers and yes indeed I have I took my sister

Nunciata there many years ago.

Is it a cue for a thing part ride for IKEA or a recently reopened McDonald's?

No, it's Jacob Reese Mogg's bizarre way of forcing MPs to create a single socially distanced cue, said to be almost a mile long,

snaking through Parliament in order for them to vote in person on whether to force MPs to vote in person,

excluding more than 200 MPs who are shielding at home.

Welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times.

I'm Matt Chorley. Let's all do the Conger.

Just for you thought politics had got serious and well a bit life and deathy

along comes Jacob Reesmark to turn it into a farce since the Commons rose early back and person, others could appear via Zoom.

And the parliamentary tech gurus quickly knocked up a website that let them vote from

home.

Well, no more.

Jacob Riesmog, the Commons leader, wants MPs back in person to show that, like rest of the country they're getting back to work

and no more of this new-fangled ex-factory online voting nonsense. But what about those more than 200 MPs

who can't make it to parlor because they've been

told to shield from coronavirus or they're living with loved ones who've been

told to shield or because cuts to transport make getting to Westminster now

almost impossible.

At the weekend I spoke to Sir Lindsay Hall, the common speaker,

who told me that an interview for the Times,

he was worried that those MPs and their constituents

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