Theresa May's attack on the Assisted Suicide Bill was phenomenal

‘This was Parliament at its best’, so went the inane and factually incorrect mantra of Kim Leadbeater as her Assisted Dying Bill made its way through the House of Commons. It did so on the back of intense duplicity about its safeguards by its sponsors and by the simple fact that the vast majority of MPs are intellectually unimpressive and suckers for anecdote over evidence.

The House of Lords was always going to be trickier ground for this Bill

The House of Lords was always going to be trickier ground. Their Lordships have their failings but they are less likely to be moved by the highly manipulative campaigns from pressure groups which have accompanied the bill. Many of them actually do know about medicine, the law and the plight of the sick and disabled, which is more than can be said