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🎙️ New episode: The Assisted Dying Bill is at a crunch point in the Lords.
(And yes — there really are 900+ amendments).

🗣️ Lord Falconer explains the stakes
⚖️ Scrutiny vs delay
🧪 The contested policy issues
🏛️ Commons–Lords dynamics
⏳ Will it become law?

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November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨 Tomorrow on Parliament Matters we talk to Lord Falconer about the Assisted Dying Bill - why he says the current law is “unfit for purpose,” and what’s next as 900+ amendments land in the Lords.

Don’t miss it — subscribe using your favourite podcast app to get it in the morning.

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November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
THURSDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?

🏠 Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Lords amendments)
🌳 DEFRA oral questions
🔴 Peers debate tax and economic policy; Hillsborough Law; and biodiversity

More detail below 🔽

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November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
When the first Chair of the House of Commons Petitions Committee was told “the Government doesn’t want you to do this,” she replied: “I do not serve the Government, I serve the House.”

🎧 Hear the full story — 10 years of petitions and people power.

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November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
BLOG | Assisted dying bill: How does Committee Stage work in the Lords?

With Committee Stage due to begin on Friday, this blog explains how Committee Stage works in the House of Lords and how long the stage is likely to take.

Read below 🔽

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Assisted dying bill: How does Committee Stage work in the House of Lords?
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – the Bill to legalise assisted dying – will begin its Committee Stage in the House of Lords on Friday 14 November. In this blog, we explain how Committee…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
You’ve signed petitions. Maybe even started one.

But what really happens after 100,000 signatures?

🎧 Hear four Chairs of the House of Commons Petitions Committee explain what your click actually does — and how it can change the law.

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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This afternoon, Labour MP @jenny4suffcoast.bsky.social will seek to present a Ten-Minute Rule Bill on road safety measures near schools

What is a Ten-Minute Rule Bill and how do they become law? Our guide explains 🔽

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What is a Ten Minute Rule Bill?
Ten Minute Rule Bills are essentially policy aims put into legislative language in order to secure a 10-minute speaking slot during 'primetime' in the House of Commons Chamber after Question Time on…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
WEDNESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?

❓ PMQs
🔵 Conservative Opposition Day
📊 Debates on data centres and immigration fees
🧑‍⚖️ Peers debate Sentencing Bill (Second Reading)
🚑 JCHR scrutinises assisted dying bill

More detail below 🔽

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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If you’ve ever signed, shared, or started a petition, our latest episode of Parliament Matters is for you. 10 years of House of Commons petitions by the people who’ve chaired it: @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social, @catsmithmp.bsky.social, @jamie4north.bsky.social

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November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The House of Commons Petitions Committee is the only place in Parliament where the public sets the agenda.

Ten years on — is it actually the most powerful pressure valve in UK politics?

🎧 Four Chairs. One conversation.
Their verdict ▶️ buff.ly/DtFCEsn
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This afternoon, Liberal Democrat MP @calummillerld.bsky.social will seek to present a Ten-Minute Rule Bill to seize Russian assets to use as aid for Ukraine.

What is a Ten-Minute Rule Bill and how do they become law? Our guide explains 🔽

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What is a Ten Minute Rule Bill?
Ten Minute Rule Bills are essentially policy aims put into legislative language in order to secure a 10-minute speaking slot during 'primetime' in the House of Commons Chamber after Question Time on…
www.hansardsociety.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎙️ New episode: Do Petitions Work?

10 years on, we bring together four Chairs of the House of Commons Petitions Committee for a candid conversation about what happens after hundreds of thousands (or sometimes millions) of people click “sign”.

🔗 Listen: buff.ly/DtFCEsn
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?

👨‍⚖️ David Lammy faces questions
🌸 Remembrance Day debate on the Armed Forces
👮 Peers debate Border Security Bill
🪑 Three cabinet ministers give evidence to committees

More detail below 🔽

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Parliament Matters Bulletin: What’s coming up in Parliament this week? 10-14 November 2025
Peers begin clause-by-clause scrutiny of the assisted dying Bill, after a Joint Committee on Human Rights evidence session on its impact on disabled people. David Lammy takes Justice questions in the…
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?

🟢 House of Commons not sitting
🏠 Peers expected to pass Planning and Infrastructure Bill
👮 Peers begin Committee Stage of Crime and Policing Bill

More detail below 🔽

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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What’s coming up in Westminster this week? 👀

— Assisted dying bill in the Lords
— David Lammy in the Commons for questions
— Crime & Policing Bill: kicks off its 12-day Lords committee marathon

Full preview in our Parliament Matters bulletin. Link is in the post below 👇
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎧 Weekend listening...

How the Glorious Revolution, Whigs & Tories — and the race to fund war — forged modern party politics.

This week we talk to George Owers about his magnificent book, Rage of Party.

Listen here via your preferred podcast app ⤵️
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November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎙️ New episode

Where did two-party politics actually come from? (Clue: it was chaotic from day one ⚔️)

👑 Monarchs v ministers
📜 Whigs v Tories
🧮 Parliamentary dark arts

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November 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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420 years ago today, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled in the cellars of the House of Lords.

The event is still marked now, when members of the Yeomen of the Guard ceremonially search the cellars of the House of Lords before the King arrives for the State Opening of Parliament.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
WEDNESDAY: What is coming up in Parliament today?

❓ Deputy PM David Lammy answers PMQs
🏓 Employment Rights Bill ping-pong
👮 Peers debate Borders Bill
💰 George Osborne & Vince Cable at Treasury Committee

More detail below 🔽
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November 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This afternoon, Labour MP @alicemlabour.bsky.social will seek to introduce a Ten-Minute Rule Bill to create a right to paid time off work for fertility treatment.

What is a Ten-Minute Rule Bill and how do they become law? Our guide explains 🔽
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...
What is a Ten Minute Rule Bill?
Ten Minute Rule Bills are essentially policy aims put into legislative language in order to secure a 10-minute speaking slot during 'primetime' in the House of Commons Chamber after Question Time on…
www.hansardsociety.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?

💰 Chancellor answers oral questions
🔵 Conservative Opposition Day on high streets and welfare spending
🌍 Lords debates Chagos Islands bill

More detail below 🔽
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November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?

🟢 Hillsborough Law (Second Reading)
🔴 Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Report Stage)
🪑 Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Office Perm Sec give evidence

More detail below 🔽
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November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
What’s happening in Westminster this week?

Our Parliament Matters bulletin previews:
— Hillsborough Law debate
— Chagos Islands bill
— Committees on Lord Mandelson’s appointment, the Afghan data-breach super-injunction, and Budget proposals

Link in the post below 👇
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🎙️ New episode out now!

🇬🇧 Why did Nigel Farage’s 10 Minute Rule Bill to pull Britain out of the ECHR fail?
🚨 Tackling abuse of MPs after the Speaker’s Conference
🏛️ Westminster Hall debates: the history of MPs' second chamber

🔗 Listen here: buff.ly/9mmSwv0
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
THURSDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?

📈 Business and Trade questions
📣 Debates on property service charges and end-of-life care
📜 Peers debate six items of delegated legislation

More detail below 🔽
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM