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Lord Mackinlay of Richborough (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 January 2026

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

I apologise to the Committee for not being fully engaged today. I have appointments elsewhere, and my father’s funeral was yesterday. I remember during the Covid period Ministers stood behind a sign reading “Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives”. My real concern now with the thought of a navigator that has only one direction is that will it be—I know it sounds rather flippant—“Save the NHS, choose a navigator, choose death”? That seems to be the chilling direction that the concept of a navigator and one choice only seems to be directing us towards.

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