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Baroness Blackstone (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 April 2026

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

I have already said that I am not giving way. I turn to my conclusion. The debate on the Bill would have been of a higher quality and met the expectations of high standards in this House if those who oppose it had acknowledged the constructive co-operation of the medical profession and if the position of medical stakeholders generally were not misrepresented by opponents of the Bill. We must return to the Bill in the next Session of Parliament, but we must do so in a rigorous and honest way, where we do not misrepresent the position of the medical profession. We have to complete it as well, to be sure that those who continue to suffer terrible deaths because of the cruel unfairness of the present law no longer have to do so.

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