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Former health minister with terminal cancer urges MPs not to bring back assisted dying bill

Lords in the last parliamentary session, despite [passing the Commons](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/assisted-dying-law-england-and-wales-bill-passed). Supporters hope they can use the Parliament Act to bypass further blocks by the House

Assisted dying bill could return after ballot of private members’ bills

Parliament Act to bypass the Lords if they can persuade another MP to take it through the Commons again. The Labour MP Lauren Edwards – a supporter of the bill – came second in the ballot

Partygate v Mandelson: Keir Starmer faces attack from his own playbook

bypass normal security vetting procedures to install the Labour veteran Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington, as [revealed by a Guardian investigation](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision) last week. But one of the key accusations that Starmer