The assisted suicide Bill has been widely pronounced dead by commentators after it was revealed that it will “almost certainly” run out of time in the House of Lords and will not become law, after the Government Chief Whip in the Lords confirmed that the Government will not commit any further time to the Bill.
Private Members’ Bills, like the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, are debated on Fridays. Despite seven additional sitting Fridays being granted for the Bill before Christmas, on top of the seven already scheduled, even the team behind the Bill now expects it to fail.
