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Lord Sandhurst (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 January 2026

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I will be very brief. We have heard the most powerful support for these amendments from the distinguished most severely disabled Members of this House—people who really know what their conditions mean and who all support these amendments. We know also that all the major organisations representing disabled people have spoken against, or cannot support, the Bill. How can we ignore that without being patronising and paternalistic? What possible good reason is there for us or the noble and learned Lord to know better? What possible good reason can there be, therefore, for us not to accept these amendments and say that, subject to any minor drafting details, they are accepted in principle now?

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