UK Lawmakers Line Up to Vote as Parliament Adjusts to COVID-19

UK Lawmakers Line Up to Vote as Parliament Adjusts to COVID-19
UK lawmakers including Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg, center left, queue outside the Houses of Commons in Westminster, London on June 2, 2020. Jonathan Brady/PA via AP
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LONDON—Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government faced a rebellion from some of its own legislators on June 2 after it summoned Members of Parliament back to London and scrapped a remote-voting system used during the nationwide pandemic lockdown.

Like millions of other Britons, the country’s 650 lawmakers have largely been working from home during the outbreak. As normal life gradually resumes, the government decreed it was time they came back to the office.