Chamber Potty: Can buildings ruin political debate?
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The History of the British Parliament
It's very much an idea rooted in the French Revolution originally, the Citizens' Assembly. The modern terms we use now left to right were literally mapped people out. Another interesting dimension, I think, in the UK House of Parliament is that when the governing party changes, the MPs change seats. In other European chambers, people stay in the same position, they don't really change positions. So we thought that that's really interesting, including how people actually speak. But the roots of this in the British Parliament are very much rooted in historical oddities.
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