I spoke to a member of the House of Lords yesterday who didn't know that the Lords has constitutional prerogative to vote down the assisted death bill (as it is not a government bill, nor a manifesto promise). This needs to be understood by all legislators concerned.

Would you believe it (yes), here's the Comms Director of Dignity-in-Dying blatantly sowing misinformation that favours her own cause - the House of Lords is entirely within constitutional rights to vote down assisted death bill. See publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/06/20/wou…

Powerful letter from Labour Lords including Luciana Berger and Thangam Debbonaire on the need for greater scrutiny for the Assisted Dying Bill.

Against the bill: Association for Palliative Medicine, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Disability Rights UK, British Geriatrics Society, Liberty, Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse, eating disorders charities, head of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. For the bill:

New parliamentary report on the assisted suicide bill, pretty damning over how much crucial detail is missing, left as blanks for Ministers to fill in. From the Delegated Powers & Regulatory Reform Committee: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldse…

*Peers over the Channel, and considers himself glad to fall under the protection of the Westminster system of government.*

This is a really excellent letter. Good to see members of the House of Lords taking their role seriously, and resisting the idea they should just rubber stamp whatever comes to them from the Commons.

At every stage, concern has been met with “leave it to somebody else” - committee stage, 3rd reading, House of Lords, Secretary of State. And it never gets clearer how it will work or safer for vulnerable people because there’s no intention that it should do.

No shock Phillipson's in the race. She has spent months prioritising union demands over children, handing the dept to her union backers. We have been left with a Schools Bill nobody voted for, written by ideologues who don’t care for standards, all to serve her own ambition.

Yesterday: House of Lords Delegated Powers Committee says parts of the bill are “skeleton legislation” and key details are missing Today: Care England says the care sector has been overlooked (“Engagement…has been minimal”) and only 13% of care homes could manage an AS law

It was good to meet with some members of the House of Lords today to discuss the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. It was encouraging that so many members of the Upper House are taking their role as revisers and scrutinisers of Bills so seriously.

Lord Forsyth, active campaigner for assisted dying legislation, who forced a vote in 2022, has written to the Times, alongside Conservative peer George Bridges, to declare Kim’s bill “not fit for purpose”. He draws on the damning report from Lords’ Delegated Powers C’ttee

“Needlessly homicidal”. Consultant nephrologist Dr Charles Soper on the assisted suicide bill in today’s Telegraph:

The irony is rich: the same media that sneers at the Church for meddling in politics now celebrates actors, as if their stardom grants them magisterial authority. ✍️ Ciaron Tobin Read here ➡️ heraldl.ink/cambridge-coun… #Catholic #UK #Ethics

On Tuesday, the think tank Politeia hosted a lunchtime discussion at the House of Lords titled "What Questions for the House of Lords?" The Panel included David Frost @LawlorSheila Philip Murray Anscombe Bioethics Centre Professor Mark Elliott Dr Charles Foster

Lord Forsyth, who has tried to introduce assisted suicide in the past, has admitted that the Leadbeater Bill is “not fit for purpose” Thankfully there is a growing list of former supporters of the Bill who now realise it is far too dangerous to let it become law.

Very glad to be part of the "Cambridge Counter-Revolt" against assisted suicide. thecatholicherald.com/article/the-ca…

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