'If MPs spend debates glued to their screens like bored teenagers, how can they hold ministers properly to account?' | Writes MichaelPDeacon
Until quite recently, no MP would ever have dreamt of looking at porn in the Commons. Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that MPs of the past were more moral. The reason may simply be that, before the invention of the smartphone, they couldn’t have hoped to get away with it. Because everyone in the chamber – and even worse, the press gallery – would immediately have been able to see what they were up to.
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