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Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 April 2026

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I put down one amendment and did not speak to it. I do not like the Bill—everyone knows that—but I was working, and trying very hard, to get it to Third Reading. I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, for recognising that. I want to say to your Lordships something about the future. It is inevitable that there will be another Bill. I implore the other House, assisted by us, that we must have pre-legislative scrutiny at that point, because if we have pre-legislative scrutiny then we really should be putting it through this House.

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