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There have been calls for a reform of "archaic" Commons guidelines after a sick Labour MP needed to enter the lobbies in a wheelchair to solid her vote.
Naz Shah stated she felt she had been stripped of her dignity after being informed she must vote in particular person throughout Wednesday's Brexit invoice debate.
Labour has accused the Tories of suspending a conference sparing unwell MPs from having to enter the chamber.
But the federal government blamed Labour for her ordeal.
Commons chief Andrea Leadsom stated she was "particularly sorry" that Ms Shah, the MP for Bradford West, had been "forced to come and vote".
"But the fact that she had to come all the way from Bradford when she was clearly so unwell is clearly a matter for the honourable lady's party."
She stated the federal government had solely been informed of Ms Shah's scenario simply after noon on Wednesday.
The authorities received the vote on the EU Withdrawal Bill by 319 to 303.
Traditionally, unwell MPs are capable of be "nodded through" by whips in the event that they make it onto the Parliamentary property, with out having to go away their car and enter the House of Commons, and it's uncommon for this conference to be solid apart.
Labour's shadow Commons chief Valerie Vaz stated she had heard Tory whips confirming it might not apply in Wednesday's vote.
"All the trust and conventions appear to have broken down that enable us to carry out our work here," she stated.
As acknowledged by The Guardian, Ms Shah had been in hospital in Bradford since final Friday with extreme nerve ache ensuing from a hit-and-run collision.
She informed the paper she had been informed by her party's whips to journey to Westminster however assured she would be capable to keep within the automobilenonetheless she stated the Conservatives insisted she needed to vote in particular person by strolling by means of the voting lobbies within the Commons.
She added: "I used to be in my pyjamas. It felt personally very undignified and really invasive. It was embarrassing. I believed I'd simply be capable to keep at the back of the automobile, the place I would made a mattress for myself, and be counted there, however the Tories would not have it.
Meanwhile the Lib Dems' deputy chief voted whereas 9 months pregnant.
"This isn't any technique to run a Parliament in a fashionable democracy," Jo Swinson posted on Twitter afterwards.
"Deciding issues of state, or which elements of the nation can have their voices heard, shouldn't be decided by which MPs may be discharged from hospital or occur to be in childbirth. We want proxy voting."
MPs are at present contemplating whether or not members who're new mother and father ought to be capable to vote by proxy.