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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rhiannon James

Lords to be seen as ‘irrelevant’ if no progress on assisted dying law – Falconer

Labour former minister Lord Falconer (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Archive)

The House of Lords is in danger of being seen as an “irrelevant talking shop” if it does not make progress on the assisted dying Bill, a Labour former minister has said.

As deliberations began on Friday, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, who is sponsoring the Bill in the upper chamber, hit out at peers for moving at what he described as a “glacial pace”.

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