Are we a 'high welfare' country where we pay people too much not to work, meaning the government could save billions by slashing welfare, no harm done? Erm - not exactly. This chart compares us with other countries. Of 34 advanced economies, we're 3rd from the bottom.

Here are a few things people won't know if they're not in the weeds of it: The Bill sponsor's new clauses & schedules to introduce Assisted Dying Panels were published on 14th Feb. Last Thursday, with the debate due the following Tuesday, she withdrew a major new clause- (1/12)

How about awarding MPs their salaries on a points system? We can give them a 50-page form to fill out to show us what they have accomplished, and they can be regularly assessed to see if they qualify for money like disabled people. That would be more efficient, right?

Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million. It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts. This is austerity 2.0.

It’s no good the sponsor of this wretched bill screwing her face up in disappointment, Sarah Olney MP is correct - this bill legislates for suicide for profit and an unregulated private market in death provision.

The Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has finished. My final speech here. This is not the Bill the public thought they were getting. It contradicts the NHS Act and the Hippocratic Oath. It's got worse, not better, in committee.

You were not elected to DOUBLE the #DisabilityBenefits cuts the Tories had proposed. You were not elected to go after those medically assessed as at ‘substantial risk’. You were not elected to try to redefine mental health as a less legitimate disability. #WelfareNotWarfare

Rachel Reeves compared cutting benefits for disabled people to cutting a child’s pocket money. Richard Tice told me yesterday that it’s time to stop paying “the idlers and skivers to sit at home”. But here’s the real cost of Labour’s changes to PIP and UC incapacity benefit:

Ten worst moments of the assisted suicide bill committee stage:

Absolutely this!

Keir Starmer said yesterday: “Labour is the party of work. We shouldn’t shrug our shoulders as millions are unable to work.” Stop creating a false binary. Clinician here: cutting £5–6k from disabled people isn’t help—it’s wilful abandonment and many will die. #WelfareNotWorkfare

25 questions for Kim Leadbeater MBE MP: 1. You’ve suggested that feeling like “a burden” could be a “legitimate” reason to ask for an assisted suicide, and you rejected an amendment to rule this out. How common do you think it is for terminally ill people to feel like a burden? 2. If

Kim Leadbeater’s briefing seems to seriously misrepresent some key aspects of the bill:

10 moments that revealed the truth about the Leadbeater Bill:

MPs who have publicly turned against the Leadbeater bill (so far):

I still think represents the most shocking void in the UK’s COVID response - when the largest biomedical facility offered to undertake testing (many universities did the same) the government didn’t even answer. The cost would have been minimal. Was it really that no-one would

Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords. Like if she needs to go. RT if she has to go.

1. Kim Leadbeater claims—without giving details—that criticism of the bill has not been “well-informed or accurate”. Who are these ill-informed critics throwing around inaccuracies? An incomplete list:

There are some fabulous malapropisms in this thread!

Despicable. As an oncologist who sees cancer patients every day this is complete and utter nonsense. Vaccines save lives. They don’t cause cancer. The only thing that’s a risk to your children are Reform. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…