Ashley Dalton

It was a striking reversal from just over a year ago when an identical bill was passed, but it ran out of time in the House of Lords.

Among those who spoke out against the measure was the former Labour health minister, Ashley Dalton, who has terminal breast cancer.

It's nothing short of irresponsible to scaremonger people like me into believing our deaths will be horrific when all the evidence suggests that with access to good palliative care, deaths are on the whole gentle.

The answer is not to terrify people and their families.

But she said it was a great sadness for the family that her mother couldn't tell them about her plan, and so they couldn't be there to say goodbye.

But another Labour MP, Ashley Dalton, a former health minister who has incurable cancer, opposed the bill and the way some campaigners promoted it.

People, I...

Have been terrorized with tales of people vomiting up their own feces as though this is commonplace during death.

Yes, I was a big advocate of this bill, but it's so important that we remain collegiate.

Incredible admiration, for example, for Ashley Dalton, who takes a very different view to me on this issue, but that was one of the bravest speeches of the day.

So I think overall, it was a credit to Parliament in terms of the tone of the debate this afternoon, even though it obviously hasn't gone the way I'd hoped.

Did you get a, a feeling that the debate actually swung people's opinion, or did your colleagues, your parliamentary colleagues, come into the chamber pretty much with their minds made up?

But it looks to me on, in, in the first of a few minutes and moments after the debate, that this was more a question that the no side were better able to get their supporters here today to, to vote in the numbers that they wanted.

There were some shatteringly powerful speeches there.

You, you mentioned Ashley Dalton, who was speaking about her own personal experience of having stage four cancer.

There was Claire Hazelgrove, who was speaking about the death of her mother.

And I know of no deity that would want that.

Since last year's debate, Ashley Dalton, a Lancashire MP, has spoken of receiving a diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer.

She accused proponents of assisted dying of exaggerating the number of terminally ill people whose death is painful.

It's nothing short of irresponsible to scaremonger people like me into believing our deaths will be horrific when all the evidence suggests that with access to good palliative care, deaths are on the whole gentle.