The controversial assisted suicide debate is back in the House of Lords, being pored over by peers. Last week, ahead of the first session, 65 peers including two former cabinet secretaries wrote an open letter urging their colleagues not to block the Bill, saying: ‘It is not our role to frustrate the clear democratic mandate expressed by elected MPS.’
But 21 of the signatories – including Lord Kinnock, the former Labour leader, Baroness Brinton, the former Lib Dem president and Lord O’donnell, an ex Cabinet Secretary – took a rather different view to Brexit.