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Josh Fenton-Glynn MP @joshfg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I know people feel raw about this and I do understand. I’d have voted for a workable bill. But having spoken on a number of occasions on palliative care and social care it’s pretty galling to be accused of bad faith

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Quite a thread- what happened to a Canadian who was in favour of assisted dying but then became disabled

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵

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Thémis 😷 Covid is not over ≽(•⩊ •マ≼ @themis2023.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

En Angleterre et au Pays de Galle, les membres du Parlement rejettent la légalisation de "l'aide à mourir". Là bas, des MPs favorables à la loi ont écouté les militants anti-validistes, contrairement à @lesecologistes.fr @franceinsoumisean.bsky.social et @partisocialiste.bsky.social 1/6

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MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales

Bill fails at second reading despite near-identical legislation being approved by Commons in last parliament

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Rebecca Long-Bailey @rebeccalongbailey.com · 11/09/2026

Thank you to all constituents who contacted me about the incredibly emotive assisted dying bill. Today I voted against. Please read my statement below 👇

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

BREAKING: MPs vote to REJECT the assisted dying bill. AYES 270 NOES 286 It now falls.

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The attorney general should have corrected factual inaccuracies in a press release published by the Crown Prosecution Service on 21 May after three boys were sentenced for rape offences at Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the Court of Appeal said today. rozenberg.substack.com/p/attorney-f...

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Attorney falls short

Lord Hermer KC should have corrected inaccurate CPS press release

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

@richardhermer.bsky.social saw his tenure as AG as the opposite of Suella but he ends with far more stinging criticisms of his conduct by the Courts then Suella ever got t.co/KQgGByZJbP

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The Other Half @otherhalforg.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Backers of the Leadbeater assisted dying Bill want @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social to take this Bill under her name, and push it through into law. That's why local residents in Rochester & Strood turned out this morning to share their opposition

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The assisted dying bill has now officially run out of time and will not pass. The debate has finished, for now.

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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Today I will turn on the Lords to hear the moment the assisted dying runs out of time with a profound sense of relief, and thankfulness that so many Lords and MPs put the interests of disabled and vulnerable people over individualism, and refused to rubberstamp a law full of holes

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This the key point. If FCDO did overturn the vetting without telling anyone it was because it had already been announced. Which was a ridiculous thing to do.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The actions of Lib Dem and Tory peers in the Lords have prevented the Chagos Bill, a govt Bill, from gaining Royal Assent This is far punchier than what has been done to the Assisted Dying Bill Yet there are no calls for constitutional change based on the Chagos Bill

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 19/03/2026

It was a terrible bill, Lord's did what a second chamber should do when the commons fail to debate complex issues such as coercion, and disabled groups warning of how future governments may not fund accommodations which enable a quality of life instead pushing the vulnerable towards euthanasia.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/03/2026

MPs were essentially told "don't worry, the Lords can sort out the details and make sure it works" and then it was treated like an outrage when Lords started scrutinising the details (some sincerely, some as spoiler). The whole process was badly rushed and it just created bad faith all round.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/03/2026

The assisted dying bill is a *terrible* reason to reform the Lords (something there are plenty of good arguments to do). It was a backbench bill! Lords were under no obligation to support it. Plenty of people suggested a backbench bill was a bad way to pass assisted dying *for this very reason*.

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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

60-40% in the Commons PLP, 15-85% in the Scottish PLP - this is the definition of divisive inside the Labour Party Let’s just get on with delivering our manifesto rather than returning to this yet again

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Odd that this doesn't mention the huge amount of money the Voluntary Euthanasia Society spent It mustn't be cheap to buy ads on the front pages of most of the Scottish press

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The crime the Lords did here is progressing with this Bill at roughly the same pace as they would for govt Bills The MP and minister quoted are not serious people Children throwing tantrums level of stuff

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Scottish Labour MSPs were massively against the Assisted Dying Bill: 17 to 3 against That's an 85 - 15 % split Contrast Westminster PLP which is 60/40 pro

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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Wonderful news from Scotland. So many congratulations to my colleagues campaigning against assisted dying who never gave up.

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Scotland rejects assisted dying bill by 69 to 57 Not that close in the end Well done to all the campaigners

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I spoke with STV news today about the Assisted Dying Bill in Holyrood. Obviously, I had a lot more to say than they could fit in, so let me say it here. (I have limited replies because, of everything I'm involved in, this is the topic I hate the most. I am laying out my position, not debating) 1/

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

So, the Lords would have needed about 22 days of Committee stage. That's actually not far off what it would have been allocated had it been a govt Bill And if it were and things were going at current pace no one would shout fillibuster

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Do 100 Labour MPs really believe that the next centre right government should be able to pass any Bill it wants - even if not a manifesto commitment - unimpeded by the Lords?

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

well this is bad

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Genuinely asking: what's Wormald meant to have done (or not done) to deserve this?

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Starmer is firing the most senior civil servant, just as he was about to embark on overseeing compliance with the humble address requiring disclosure of lots of No 10 documents. If a Tory govt had done that we would be drowning in "we are on threshold of fascism" articles

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is increasingly unhinged. The Cabinet Secretary post has become a shortlived political appointment. It is supposed to be the single continuity on which the entire UK government machinery rests. Not saying Wormald is blameless. But if there is this much blame, there's a certain PM needing to go.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/02/2026

“I advised the prime minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibiiity for that advice” The inevitably question for Number 10 now is why the advice is a resigning matter but the actual decision isn’t. That’s a hard question to answer.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Not to overanalyse, but this pattern: send out ministers to defend bad decision in the morning media round, walk back bad decision in the afternoon is what ultimately killed Johnson's administration.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Advisers advise and ministers decide – now far harder for Starmer to argue he shouldn’t resign.

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Both Erskine May and the PBL Guide to Making Legislation are clear about that a PMB which needs even just a single amendment in the Lords (Falconer has tabled several) will almost certainly not make it to RA If you can't get a square through a round hole, it's not the hole's fault!

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Labour elites' idea that the Tories created something undefined called 'psychodrama', which could simply be switched off as a matter of preference, was always going to suffer a rude awakening

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Lord Falconer says he is "not remotely embarrassed" by the Mandelson-Epstein scandal Falconer introduced Mandelson to the Lords and is close to Starmer

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Once again, the Good Tsar Bad Boyar fallacy Advisers advice, Ministers decide Starmer should take the blame rather than McSweeney being a fall guy

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/02/2026

The accusation that the Lords are “obstructing democracy” by supporters of the assisted dying bill is a ridiculous one that shows up the flaws in this process that have been there from the very beginning – which have repeatedly been covered up by heated rhetoric (1/?)

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Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not a big fan of Rachel - I think the issue is that she actively lied/manipulated/and gaslighted. Whereas afaik other traitors have only done so defensively. Feel that crossed a line #Traitors #TheTraitors

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