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I am sending the assisted dying bill back to the Lords – and this time, peers must do the right thing | Lauren Edwards
By Lauren Edwards

The will of the elected chamber – and a popular, compassionate piece of legislation – must not be frustrated again by a small minority of peers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/08/assisted-dying-bill-house-of-lords-mps-lauren-edwards

#Assisteddying #HouseofCommons #Politics #Law #Society #UKnews #HouseofLords #TheGuardian #LaurenEdwards

Assisted dying to go ahead even if NHS not ready, Tories warn

Assisted dying would come into force within four years of MPs passing it into law “regardless of whether…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #assisteddying #DamianHinds #Health #healthcare #HouseofCommons #HouseofLords #NHS(NationalHealthService) #Politics #standard #UK #UKNews #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/762970/

As assisted dying bill returns to Commons, families recall loved ones’ battle to ‘go out on own terms’
By Caroline Davies

Elise Burns and Keith Williams appeared in campaign filmed by Rankin this year – both were denied their wishes, but their relatives are picking up the baton

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/07/as-assisted-dying-bill-returns-to-commons-families-recall-loved-ones-battle-to-go-out-on-own-terms

#Assisteddying #Deathanddying #England #Wales #Health #Cancer #HouseofCommons #HouseofLords #Rankin #TheGuardian #CarolineDavies

As assisted dying bill returns to Commons, families recall loved ones’ battle to ‘go out on own terms’
By Caroline Davies

Elise Burns and Keith Williams appeared in campaign filmed by Rankin this year – both were denied their wishes, but their relatives are picking up the baton

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/07/as-assisted-dying-bill-returns-to-commons-families-recall-loved-ones-battle-to-go-out-on-own-terms

#Assisteddying #Deathanddying #England #Wales #Health #Cancer #HouseofCommons #HouseofLords #Rankin #TheGuardian #CarolineDavies

As assisted dying bill returns to Commons, families recall loved ones’ battle to ‘go out on own terms’
By Caroline Davies

Elise Burns and Keith Williams appeared in campaign filmed by Rankin this year – both were denied their wishes, but their relatives are picking up the baton

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/07/as-assisted-dying-bill-returns-to-commons-families-recall-loved-ones-battle-to-go-out-on-own-terms

#Assisteddying #Deathanddying #England #Wales #Health #Cancer #HouseofCommons #HouseofLords #Rankin #TheGuardian #CarolineDavies

As assisted dying bill returns to Commons, families recall loved ones’ battle to ‘go out on own terms’
By Caroline Davies

Elise Burns and Keith Williams appeared in campaign filmed by Rankin this year – both were denied their wishes, but their relatives are picking up the baton

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/07/as-assisted-dying-bill-returns-to-commons-families-recall-loved-ones-battle-to-go-out-on-own-terms

#Assisteddying #Deathanddying #England #Wales #Health #Cancer #HouseofCommons #HouseofLords #Rankin #TheGuardian #CarolineDavies

Bizarre statement by #AnasSarwar! 🙄

It's about his decision to eff to London, to a seat in the unelected #HouseOfLords. He will also be a minister for trade, but as a Minster Of State, he will have no power. The prize here is the Lords seat for life

At the end, he refers to his successor, in a context that can only refer to the party leadership. But he never actually says that he is resigning as leader of #ScottishLabour. Is he still leader?

#scotpol#ukpol

A tough 5 years for Scotland's silliest clown show. Traditionally, every other year the leader of #ScottishLabour would be humiliatingly defenestrated, and replaced with someone even less competent.

#AnasSarwar cheated by staying for 5 years, almost a million times the average tenure. The comedy cane from losing elections with increasing severity.

Now he restores the humiliation by crawling to the #HouseOfLords.

#SLAB Leader #11 due soon. Don't blink, or you'll miss them 😅🤣

#scotpol #ukpol

#Churchill was the Prime Minister when the British caused a famine in Iran during WWII by forcibly requisitioning stores of grain there.

Churchill was also the Prime Minister when India exported food ignoring a famine in Bengal during WWII. But 50 peers organized "a row": https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/23/artwork-removed-national-portrait-gallery-helen-cammock-churchill-bengal-famine

#whiteFragility #London #India #Bangladesh #BritishEmpire #famine #Cromwell #history #HouseOfLords #WWII #UK

This week, the last of the hereditary peers were expelled from the House of Lords. #JacobReesMogg reflects:

https://youtu.be/qbMJeJAj9Rk?si=R76cvodGmrzYhOVd

When you think about it, through the last 100 years, the #HouseOfLords has been moving towards the model of the Canadian Senate; odd really, given that most Canadians have nothing good to say about our Senate.

#Parliament #ukpol

“The Lords may be quaint and historic, but it is constitutionally indefensible. It is one of only two parliaments in the world, along with Lesotho, to have hereditary members: there are 92 sitting by inherited right, 26 as leaders of a religious sect and dozens who have paid large sums to be members, often just for the title.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/14/keir-starmer-house-of-lords-reform

#HouseOfLords #Starmer #Labour #ConstitutionalReform

🆕 Constitutional reform and the creation of a senate | Frances Crook

We need a national debate about legislative and structural reform of our political system, including the potential creation of a senate in place of the House of Lords

Read more 🔗 #ConstitutionalReform #HouseofLords
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/constitutional-reform-and-the-creation-of-a-senate/