Keir Starmer
A senior professor of old-age psychiatry has branded the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ (RCPsych) approach to the Assisted Dying Bill ‘inconsistent with the college membership’. Baroness Elaine Murphy, a prominent medical member of the House of Lords, has added her voice to a growing number of RCPsych members, including a former college president and vice-president,… Read more »
The House of Lords Select Committee on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life Bill) held the first oral evidence sessions today, where it heard overwhelmingly that patient choice and autonomy are enhanced by the introduction of assisted dying. The Bill sponsors and three representatives from Royal Colleges all said that patients will be able… Read more »
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Ed Davey has called on the prime minister to show strength by “challenging Donald Trump’s lies” when he meets with the US president. The Liberal Democrat leader has been a consistent critic of Trump since his election on 5 November, which he referred to at the time as a “dark, dark day for people around… Read more »
Prime minister’s questions this afternoon did not display the same combative grit that we have grown accustomed to across recent sessions. Kemi Badenoch’s questions were more consciously consensual than previous lines of inquiry; at one point, she even attempted a pleasantry. Meanwhile, her lines of attack — when she did pursue them — were limper…. Read more »
