Somewhat unexpectedly, one of the most immediate changes brought about by televising the House of Commons was to male MPs’ hairstyles.
Until then, it had been the habit amongst some of the, er…, thinning on top MPs to brush their hair forward so that when you looked at them face to face it appeared that they had a bountiful mop of hair above their forehead. Unfortunately, if you looked down on their head from a slightly elevated position, this impressive wave of hair instead looked like a toupe that had slipped forward leaving a bald patch further back.
And where were the new Commons cameras? At a slightly elevated position, looking down.
Cue a rapid change of hairstyle from MPs such as Bryan Gould.
I’m sure there is a moral in this somewhere…
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…A bit surprised you have not mentioned that the only party that had campaigned for years for the televising of Parliament was the Liberal Party (not that it did them any good, in fact the televising of Prime Minister’s Question Time only seemed to make the third party all the more marginalised).
Mr Young has a typical selfish, “big party ” view of why people do things , = self-interest.
Liberal motivation is very different: the party believes in radical changes which will benefit everyone, not just those that suit its electoral chances.