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How do MPs vote in the House of Commons? What pressures must they balance when voting? Voting in the House of Commons is called a ‘division’. When a division is called, bells ring out across the Commons and MPs must head to the chamber to vote in person. We look at this process through the vote on the government’s controversial high speed rail project that would link London to the North: HS2. We meet MPs who are voting against their party, known as rebels. They tell us about having to weigh up party loyalty on the one hand with a duty to their constituents on the other. We see the vote as it happens, as hundreds of MPs stream through two rooms called the voting lobbies. Labour Leader Ed Miliband tells us how the voting lobby is a place for MPs from all parties to catch up and talk business. But is this form of voting outdated? Should it be replaced with an electronic system?