Member

Ten noble Lords have accounted for 26% of the time on this Bill. Most of them have spoken for more than two hours, well beyond the four and a half minutes. I promise I will speak for no more than five. I am embarrassed by our role, not because people hold very different views—it is important that they do—but because we have failed, as my noble friend Lord Lansley said, to bring it to a vote either in principle or in detail. We have unfinished business. People across the country, whatever their view, think that we have not done our job. It is too right that polling shows that the public want a safe assisted dying Bill and for the House of Lords to do its job. We have not.