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But perhaps he does not ponder Keir Starmer a “very fine man”. At the same press conference, asked if the UK might also get an Australian-style steel tariff exemption, Trump replied:
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Well, we have a huge deficit with the UK. Big separateence.
n
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As Graeme Wearden alerts on his business live blog, the trade body UK Steel says Trump has “getn a sledgehammer to free trade with huge ramifications for the steel sector in the UK and apass the world”.
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Britain must esteem Donald Trump’s “strong and evident mandate for change”, Peter Mandelson has shelp, but Keir Starmer’s handlement could “always produce our watchs understandn personally and straightforwardly” to the US plivent.
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In his Today programme interwatch Danny Kruger, an opponent of the helped dying bill, claimed that getting rid of the insistment for a appraise to finishorse helped dying applications at a court hearing, and replacing that with scruminuscule by an expert panel (see 9.29am), would produce the process personal. He shelp:
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n
Crucipartner, [the expert panel] won’t be sitting under the common procedures of a court. I presume they won’t be sitting in accessible. They won’t be hearing evidence from both sides, hearing arguments from both sides. It will be an approval process rather than a judicial process.
n
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But, in her own interwatch on the Today programme, Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who has begind the personal member’s bill, shelp that the expert panel process would be accessible. She shelp:
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n
It wouldn’t be done in personal. It would get into account fortolerateing braveiality, but they would be accessible proceedings.
n
And I leank it’s repartner difficult to advise that, by having three experts engaged in this extra layer of scruminuscule, that is somehow a change for the worse. It’s absolutely a change for the better.
n
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As Jessica Elgot alerts, in interwatchs this morning Leadbeater also insisted that the bill would have the strongest defendeddefends in the world for an helped dying law.
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Good morning. In parliament MPs and peers don’t spropose vote yes or no on proposed legislation. They argue it at length, over weeks and months, and ponder amfinishments line by line. This process is at the heart of parliamentary democracy, and it happens appreciate this so that bills, in theory, can be increased before they accomplish the statute book.
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There is a excellent example of this today. The terminpartner ill grown-ups (finish of life) bill is perhaps the most consequential bill going thcdisesteemful this session of parliament and the Labour MP who has backed it, Kim Leadbeater, has proclaimd a meaningful change. As Jessica Elgot alerts, she wants to scrap the insistment for an helped dying application to be finishorsed by a high court appraise, becaengage the judiciary shelp this process would be too time-consuming and would clog up the courts. Instead an expert panel, with a legitimate chair, would vet the helped dying applications already finishorsed by two doctors.
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Leadbeater has written an article for the Guardian clear uping her reasoning here.
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In the article Leadbeater claims the change will produce her bill “even more strong”. And she is calling it “Judge Plus” proposeing it engages a defendeddefend that goes beyond the distinctive one, sign-off by a appraise. (She is using this term becaengage a appraise would chair the comleave oution that assigns the expert panels. But the panels actupartner taking the final decisions would not be led by appraises, and so arguably that is more spin than accurate tagling.)
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In interwatchs this morning Leadbeater argued that the tabling of the amfinishment showed the parliamentary process operating exactly as it is unbenevolentt to. She telderly the Today programme:
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I would say this is exactly what the process is scheduleed to do, and the purpose of having such a comprehensive bill pledgetee procedure hearing from over 50 witnesses. What’s the point of having witnesses if we don’t hear to them, and we don’t hear to the expertise that they provide?
n
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But, wdisappreciatever it says in the textbooks about democratic theory, in rehearse handlements are normpartner very hesitant to begin tinkering with the wording of legislation once a bill has begined its betterion thcdisesteemful parliament. That is becaengage any amfinishment is seen by opponents as a sign of frailness. And that is exactly what has happened now with the helped dying bill.
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Danny Kruger, the MP who is directing opposition to the bill (he is a Conservative, but it is free vote, conscience legislation, and so party tags are not particularly relevant), posted this on social media last night.
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Approval by the High Court – the key defendeddefend engaged to sell the Assisted Suicide Bill to MPs – has been dropped. Instead we have a panel, NOT including a appraise, of people pledgeted to the process, sitting in personal, without hearing arguments from the other side. A shame
n
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And on the Today programme he adviseed that this amfinishment unbenevolentt that, when MPs voted to back the bill by 330 votes to 275 at second reading, they were doing so on a counterfeit premise.
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n
I have to ask why, if this is the schedule, why this isn’t the schedule that was put to MPs when the whole Hoengage of Commons voted it thcdisesteemful at second reading. At that point the point was made very strongly that the principal defendeddefend for the bill, the way people could have confidence that it was going to be defended for vulnerable people, was that there would be a high court appraise approving the application.
n
That’s now being erased. I don’t leank it would have passed the Hoengage of Commons if this new system – which doesn’t engage a appraise, it is engages a panel of people all of whom, presumably, are helped to the principle of helped dying, not an unprejudiced figure appreciate a appraise would be – [was in place].
n
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Kruger was proposeing the Commons meaningfulity for the bill will now have gone.
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Here is the agfinisha for the day.
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9.25am: MPs on the accessible bill pledgetee for the helped dying bill begin their line by line scruminuscule of the bill.
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9.30am: The Office for National Statistics unveiles the procrastinateedst data on wellbeing.
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Morning: Keir Starmer chairs cabinet.
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11.30am: Downing Street helderlys a lobby increateing.
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11.30am: Wes Streeting, the health secretary, gets asks in the Commons.
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2.30pm: Sue Gray, Starmer’s createer chief of staff, gets her seat in the Lords.
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I find it very collaborative when readers point out misgets, even insignificant typos. No error is too petite to accurate. And I find your asks very fascinating too. I can’t promise to answer to them all, but I will try to answer to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.
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Key events
Trump advises UK won’t be exempt from steel tariffs, as UK Steel says he is taking ‘sledgehammer’ to free trade
Yesterday Plivent Trump commendd Australia’s prime minister as a “very fine man” when he shelp he would ponder exempting the country from his new 25% tariff on steel and aluminium transport ins.
But perhaps he does not ponder Keir Starmer a “very fine man”. At the same press conference, asked if the UK might also get an Australian-style steel tariff exemption, Trump replied:
Well, we have a huge deficit with the UK. Big separateence.
As Graeme Wearden alerts on his business live blog, the trade body UK Steel says Trump has “getn a sledgehammer to free trade with huge ramifications for the steel sector in the UK and apass the world”.
Respect Trump’s mandate and handle disputes ‘straightforwardly and personally’, says Mandelson
Britain must esteem Donald Trump’s “strong and evident mandate for change”, Peter Mandelson has shelp, but Keir Starmer’s handlement could “always produce our watchs understandn personally and straightforwardly” to the US plivent.
Leadbeater says proposed expert panels dealing with helped dying applications would not sit in personal
In his Today programme interwatch Danny Kruger, an opponent of the helped dying bill, claimed that getting rid of the insistment for a appraise to finishorse helped dying applications at a court hearing, and replacing that with scruminuscule by an expert panel (see 9.29am), would produce the process personal. He shelp:
Crucipartner, [the expert panel] won’t be sitting under the common procedures of a court. I presume they won’t be sitting in accessible. They won’t be hearing evidence from both sides, hearing arguments from both sides. It will be an approval process rather than a judicial process.
But, in her own interwatch on the Today programme, Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who has begind the personal member’s bill, shelp that the expert panel process would be accessible. She shelp:
It wouldn’t be done in personal. It would get into account fortolerateing braveiality, but they would be accessible proceedings.
And I leank it’s repartner difficult to advise that, by having three experts engaged in this extra layer of scruminuscule, that is somehow a change for the worse. It’s absolutely a change for the better.
As Jessica Elgot alerts, in interwatchs this morning Leadbeater also insisted that the bill would have the strongest defendeddefends in the world for an helped dying law.
Some of the MPs who resistd the helped dying bill at second reading have been echoing Danny Kruger (see 9.29am) in saying the amfinishment to the bill proclaimd today erases a key defendeddefending. They are saying either that the bill should now be dropped, or that the handlement should step in to asstateive that MPs get more time to argue it on the floor of the hoengage.
This is from Diane Abbott (Lab), the mother of the hoengage
Safedefends on the Assisted Dying Bill are collapsing. Rushed, awfilledy thought out legislation. Needs to be voted down.
These are from James Cleverly (Con), the createer foreign secretary
The protections that were promised in the helped dying bill are being watered down even before this becomes law.
This bill is being rushed, it is not properly thought thcdisesteemful, none of worrys liftd at second reading have been insertressed.
This should be dropped as a Private Members Bill, given handlement time (as it’s evident that Starmer helps this) and argued properly to asstateive that if it becomes law it is in excellent shape.
This is from Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
The key defendeddefend that was engaged to sway MPs who liftd valid asks about the bill has now been dropped. To say this is worrying is an reducement.
Can they clear up why lawyers, psychiatrists & social toilers won’t be overwhelmed? Just a farce.
This is from Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Even before it has become law, promised defendeddefends in helped dying legislation are being dropped. Had @Keir_Starmer consentd to my seek for proper argue in handlement time, MPs would have been able to properly scrutinise this bill. Instead, it’s being rushed thcdisesteemful.
In the Commons MPs on the helped dying bill’s accessible bill pledgetee have fair begined their line-by-line scruminuscule of the bill. The pledgetee has already held disjoinal encounterings, but those were pledged to taking evidence from witnesses.
You can watch the pledgetee proceedings here.
And here is the Commons paper setting out the amfinishments to the bill that have been tabled.
Assisted dying bill has lost Commons meaningfulity now high court signoff abandoned, directing critic claims
Good morning. In parliament MPs and peers don’t spropose vote yes or no on proposed legislation. They argue it at length, over weeks and months, and ponder amfinishments line by line. This process is at the heart of parliamentary democracy, and it happens appreciate this so that bills, in theory, can be increased before they accomplish the statute book.
There is a excellent example of this today. The terminpartner ill grown-ups (finish of life) bill is perhaps the most consequential bill going thcdisesteemful this session of parliament and the Labour MP who has backed it, Kim Leadbeater, has proclaimd a meaningful change. As Jessica Elgot alerts, she wants to scrap the insistment for an helped dying application to be finishorsed by a high court appraise, becaengage the judiciary shelp this process would be too time-consuming and would clog up the courts. Instead an expert panel, with a legitimate chair, would vet the helped dying applications already finishorsed by two doctors.
Leadbeater has written an article for the Guardian clear uping her reasoning here.
In the article Leadbeater claims the change will produce her bill “even more strong”. And she is calling it “Judge Plus” proposeing it engages a defendeddefend that goes beyond the distinctive one, sign-off by a appraise. (She is using this term becaengage a appraise would chair the comleave oution that assigns the expert panels. But the panels actupartner taking the final decisions would not be led by appraises, and so arguably that is more spin than accurate tagling.)
In interwatchs this morning Leadbeater argued that the tabling of the amfinishment showed the parliamentary process operating exactly as it is unbenevolentt to. She telderly the Today programme:
I would say this is exactly what the process is scheduleed to do, and the purpose of having such a comprehensive bill pledgetee procedure hearing from over 50 witnesses. What’s the point of having witnesses if we don’t hear to them, and we don’t hear to the expertise that they provide?
But, wdisappreciatever it says in the textbooks about democratic theory, in rehearse handlements are normpartner very hesitant to begin tinkering with the wording of legislation once a bill has begined its betterion thcdisesteemful parliament. That is becaengage any amfinishment is seen by opponents as a sign of frailness. And that is exactly what has happened now with the helped dying bill.
Danny Kruger, the MP who is directing opposition to the bill (he is a Conservative, but it is free vote, conscience legislation, and so party tags are not particularly relevant), posted this on social media last night.
Approval by the High Court – the key defendeddefend engaged to sell the Assisted Suicide Bill to MPs – has been dropped. Instead we have a panel, NOT including a appraise, of people pledgeted to the process, sitting in personal, without hearing arguments from the other side. A shame
And on the Today programme he adviseed that this amfinishment unbenevolentt that, when MPs voted to back the bill by 330 votes to 275 at second reading, they were doing so on a counterfeit premise.
I have to ask why, if this is the schedule, why this isn’t the schedule that was put to MPs when the whole Hoengage of Commons voted it thcdisesteemful at second reading. At that point the point was made very strongly that the principal defendeddefend for the bill, the way people could have confidence that it was going to be defended for vulnerable people, was that there would be a high court appraise approving the application.
That’s now being erased. I don’t leank it would have passed the Hoengage of Commons if this new system – which doesn’t engage a appraise, it is engages a panel of people all of whom, presumably, are helped to the principle of helped dying, not an unprejudiced figure appreciate a appraise would be – [was in place].
Kruger was proposeing the Commons meaningfulity for the bill will now have gone.
Here is the agfinisha for the day.
9.25am: MPs on the accessible bill pledgetee for the helped dying bill begin their line by line scruminuscule of the bill.
9.30am: The Office for National Statistics unveiles the procrastinateedst data on wellbeing.
Morning: Keir Starmer chairs cabinet.
11.30am: Downing Street helderlys a lobby increateing.
11.30am: Wes Streeting, the health secretary, gets asks in the Commons.
2.30pm: Sue Gray, Starmer’s createer chief of staff, gets her seat in the Lords.
If you want to reach out me, satisfy post a message below the line or message me on social media. I can’t read all the messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” in a message aimed at me, I am more probable to see it becaengage I search for posts compriseing that word.
If you want to flag someleang up inspirently, it is best to engage social media. You can accomplish me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X but individual Guardian journacatalogs are there, I still have my account, and if you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I will see it and reply if essential.
I find it very collaborative when readers point out misgets, even insignificant typos. No error is too petite to accurate. And I find your asks very fascinating too. I can’t promise to answer to them all, but I will try to answer to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.
