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Baroness Berridge (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 14 November 2025

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

As people around me are saying, I do not think I said that. They are neutral. The royal colleges have said that they have problems with the Bill, but they have been neutral on the principle, save for the Royal College of General Practitioners. I am sorry; I stand corrected on that. They are neutral, as is the Association for Palliative Medicine, which is not a royal college. When one looks at the evidence that we took, of course individuals from within that group would come along whom we had to call. It was right that we did that, but one looks at a corporate view. I enormously respect Professor Sir Chris Whitty, but I heard his evidence on this and he was not the highest expert in the land. He was humble enough to write to correct himself, as he had misunderstood the Mental Capacity Act when he gave evidence in the Commons.

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