British PM takes parliamentary grilling online
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday launched an online version of his weekly question-and-answer session in parliament, vowing to give let the public grill him directly, on YouTube.
Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) is a weekly institution in the lower House of Commons, where lawmakers get 30 minutes at noon every Wednesday to quiz him on any subject that takes their fancy.
The online version is seen as an attempt to counter charges that the Labour leader is behind the times, in particular compared to Conservative leader David Cameron, who has called Brown "an analogue Prime Minister in a digital age".
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