Lord Stevens of Birmingham (CB)

The firebombing of synagogues, the Golders Green stabbings, the Heaton Park murders—the whole country clearly needs to wake up to what is happening. The Government are right, finally, to proscribe the

My Lords, I pile on to the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on this fantastic session. Given the excellence of the contributions that we have already heard, I will just draw out a small

On the thrust of the argument, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, that approaching this probabilistically, rather than with a single number, clearly makes sense. It is wonderful to hear the imp

Perhaps the noble and learned Lord will clarify the answer he gave on Scotland. I think he is saying that even though the Scottish Parliament has decided that assisted dying should not be lawful in Sc

I would be interested to come back to that on Report when we have had a chance to investigate that point further. Fundamentally, this shows that there is a great problem, a structural problem, in tryi

Is the noble and learned Lord suggesting that Scottish health professionals will be travelling south to undertake assisted dying? Is it a sort of Berwick-upon-Tweed provision?