Sky News’ Sam Coates reports that the government will not be giving the Assisted Dying Bill extra debate time in the House of Lords. Meaning there will be only 5 days of debate left, and the bill will likely fail…
The government chief whip in the Lords Roy Kennedy told the Labour parliamentary committee that there will be no more days given to legislate on the bill, which needs to pass before the King’s Speech and the end of this parliamentary session in May. If it doesn’t, the legislative process needs to start all over again. No assistance from the government on this one…
Speaking at an IPPR think tank event in London, the Health Secretary compared striking junior doctors to mutinous sailors.
“I feel like we’ve turned the ship, the boat’s going in the right direction, except some of the crew are trying to row in one direction while the rest of us are going in the other. You can’t make progress that way. We are seeing an improving NHS, and we’ve seen improvement despite resident doctors’ strikes, but the fact is, performance would have been better and there would have been more money to invest in staff and services if the BMA hadn’t been undertaking the strike action.”