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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Jul 2025
West Bank: Forced Displacement

"I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, and will tell some of those stories now.

I spent time with some of the kindest, most resilient people I have met. Even back then it was deemed too dangerous for us to go to Gaza, but in the west bank we spent …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Jul 2025
West Bank: Forced Displacement

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Turner. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North (Martin Rhodes) for securing this debate on an issue that we simply cannot ignore or put in the “too difficult” pile.

This is a tragedy on so …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I will make some progress.

We have a system in which it legal for someone to starve themselves to death, which can take days or weeks, but where it is not legal for someone to seek assistance from a doctor to take an approved substance themselves to end their pain …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I think we have covered that point already. These are not homogeneous groups of people; they have different views and opinions.

If we look at the inconsistencies in the current law, it just does not make sense. If someone with a terminal illness voluntarily stops eating and drinking, it is …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I am going to finish shortly.

Surely we should all have the right to decide what happens to our bodies and decide when enough is enough. Of course, giving people the right to choose does not take away the right not to choose.

Today, we can vote with either our …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I am just going to make some progress, if I may. But, as I was saying, it is an either/or decision for us today: either we vote for the safe, effective, workable reform contained in this Bill, or we say that the status quo is acceptable.

Over recent months, I …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I thank him for his intervention, but I would say, as I have said previously, that people working in palliative care have a mixed range of views on this subject. I have met with palliative care doctors, and some are very supportive of a change in the law because of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I am just going to make some progress.

Patients must have

“an inevitably progressive illness or disease which cannot be reversed by treatment”

and a person is not considered to be terminally ill only because they have a disability or a mental disorder. These clear, strict criteria, plus the multiple …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I think what he is saying is that people have got different views, and they do have different views; we have different views in this House, and different people in different professions have different views. Every royal college has a neutral position …..."
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