Exclusive: New MPs and backbenchers complain of wasted time in document sent to leader of Commons

The Commons should consider a move to electronic voting, a group of more than 60 backbenchers have said, with the current system of filing physically through voting lobbies taking up to a fifth of their working day.

Of the 62 signatories to the joint letter to Lucy Powell, the leader of the Commons, 39 are Labour MPs who were elected this year, a sign of the impatience among some sections of the new intake at what they view as parliament’s arcane working practices.