‘Marrying tradition and innovation’: MPs hold first meeting on Zoom, with some technical hiccups

Even House Speaker Anthony Rota, who presided over the first virtual sitting, found himself forgetting to unmute his mic at one point during the proceedings.
In a historic move allowing Parliament to reconvene during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, some 280 MPs met for the first time on Zoom on Tuesday, a virtual gathering that came with its fair share of technical glitches, brief interruptions, and poor connectivity issues...

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