Starmer in Rio de Janeiro for G20 summit and is set to become first UK PM to meet Chinese president in six years
In her Today interview Harriet Harman, the former Labour deputy leader, claimed that Keir Starmer and Lucy Powell, the leader of the Commons, have both said that the assisted dying bill will get “as much time as it needs” for detailed, line-by-line debate, if it passes the second reading vote on Friday week. She said: I do not think the government is showing any signs of wanting to restrict the debate.
It then goes to the Lords … The only time constraint is this needs to be finished by November next year. But on the same programme Nikki da Costa, a former Tory adviser who was director of legislative affairs in Downing Street under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, said she thought Harman was wrong. She pointed out that the bill is much longer than private members’ bills normally are, but that the time allocated for it is just the standard PMB slot.
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