Lauren Edwards: “This is unfinished business for parliament.”

It’s incredibly overdue and people are suffering. There will be huge repercussions I think for people’s faith in politics and view of the House of Lords if they were to talk it out again.

I’ve spoken to people whose family members have been on ketamine drips, huge amounts, a cocktail of drugs designed to manage their pain, they still die in agony even with the palliative care that we can offer.

After giving the matter a great deal of thought, I will be reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

He can’t block it in any formal sense – consideration of Private Members Bills is entirely separate from the Prime Minister.