Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Debate between Baroness Smith of Basildon and Baroness Jay of Paddington

Thursday 8th January 2026 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab)]

I suggest that noble Lords do not interrupt other noble Lords when they are speaking.

[Baroness Jay of Paddington (Lab)]

I do not back away from the phrase “heavily criticised”. I cannot believe that anybody in this House who has at least absorbed some of the media coverage of these debates has not accepted that there has been no general agreement about the positions that have been taken, and more importantly, about the way in which some of those positions have been argued. There are, of course, enormous divisions of opinion, as there have always been, but in this House, they have been—