Do the Demoggcracy Conga

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The return of Parliament-in-person was met with dismay as disgruntled MPs were forced to conga through Palace of Westminster, and distanced or shielded Members were sidelined. Will remote voting have to return, and are Wales and Scotland doing digital democracy better than England? Rowland Manthorpe, Tech Correspondent from Sky News, joins us to explain. Plus: Is the Government’s slipshod use of data in the COVID fight storing up trouble for the future? And what do the tumultuous events in America mean for democracy in the USA? Mark Landler of the New York Times sets out the enormity of these historic events. “Not everyone likes technology til they try it… but perhaps we shouldn’t throw it away in a reactionary way.” – Hannah White “The conga of MPs was as long as 89 London buses. That’s hardly social distancing.” – Gavin Freeguard “Compared to the Commons the Lords looks like a go-ahead organisation right now.” – Hannah White Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Hannah White and Gavin Freeguard. Audio production by Alex Rees. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:13.7	I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:15.8	We're going to take a dive into data today because data, statistics, numbers, graphs is at the heart of the government's
0:22.2	strategy for tackling the virus and easing the lockdown and it affects how that is reported
0:26.5	and discussed by us all. So how many people in the UK are really infected with COVID-19? How many
0:32.9	tests are being conducted each day? How much of your personal data are you going to hand over to the
0:38.0	government from a track and trace system to work? We'll also turn our attention to a more
0:42.4	analog display, the site of a conga line of MPs snaking round the Palace of Westminster to vote in
0:48.2	person. Why has the government ditched the virtual parliament already? And we'll be taking a look
0:54.0	at the quite astonishing scenes in the US,
0:56.3	now approaching a week of protests, riots and demonstrations coming up later.
1:01.4	I'm delighted to be joined by Hannah White, Deputy Director. Hi, Hannah.
1:05.5	Hello.
1:06.2	And a big welcome back to Gavin Freigard, our head of data.
1:09.4	Gavin, great to have you with us.
1:10.6	Thank you very much. And we're really delighted to be joined by Roland, Manthorarde, our head of data. Gavin, great to have you with us. Thank you very much.
1:11.6	And we're really delighted to be joined by Roland, Manthorpe, tech correspondent at Sky News.
1:16.4	Roland, the tech companies have really owned the lockdown.
1:19.1	Do you think the country has taken a big leap forward and we're all now going to be on top of new tech
1:22.7	forever?
1:23.3	No, not really.
1:24.6	I mean, not judging by the scenes in Parliament yesterday.
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