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Lord Ashcombe (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 December 2025

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I take noble Lords back to when they were young; we have all been there. I suspect that we all remember the odd and what may now seem very troubling ideas that sometimes passed through our minds during those years. Many of us have also watched our children—and for some of us, I dare say, grandchildren, though I am not there yet—navigate that turbulent stage of life. These formative years are full of experimentation, confusion and growth. They are not the years in which irreversible decisions should be entertained. Therefore, I am very much in favour of increasing the age limit to 25, as the noble Baroness, Lady Berger, suggests.

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