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No, I am sorry. I end with the words of Elise Burns, who, like me, called Kent home, and who sadly died in July with secondary cancer of the lungs, liver and bones. She said she would love peers “to l
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11 September 2026·Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am sorry; I will not. Those people include Christie Arntsen, who has lived for more than a decade with incurable metastatic breast cancer, which has sadly returned for the fifth time. She is undergo
11 September 2026·Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI will make some progress. As important as a democratic point of principle is to the argument I am making, we must not lose sight of the people who are relying on us most: the terminally ill and their
11 September 2026·Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWe have been through that process. There was a Committee that had hundreds of hours of scrutiny and properly kicked the tyres on the robustness of this legislation. What we need to do as a House is se
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