The Press Gazette has a story about a group of MPs who were campaigning to allow television to show MPs "in the main committee corridor, where much of the offstage political drama at Westminster takes place". This proposal has been rejected by the government.
The group of MPs propsing this change included Martin Linton who is quted as saying:
There should be a relaxation of the rules of filming around the precincts of Parliament.
People are not allowed to take still photographs, which means that many newspapers refuse to use grainy pictures taken from the television monitor and end up using nothing at all.
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