Lauren Edwards: “The Parliament Acts are just there as a back stop or insurance policy against another undemocratic filibuster that would…”

It is time to do the same and give terminally ill people the choice to exercise some control over the manner of their deaths.

But I think it’s a really important thing that we need to do as a country, and I certainly felt a responsibility to those people who really wanted this legislation to be brought in, who were very frustrated, quite rightly frustrated, by…

The voters put us here to tackle the big issues they care about, not to constantly kick them down the road.

Parliament has dropped the ball today. It will be picked up again as it must be, because the law as it stands is simply too cruel and too unjust to be allowed to stand.