A proposed bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives will not become law, after the House of Lords ran out of time to debate the numerous amendments,The assisted dying bill, which passed the House of Commons in June last year, had 16 days in the Lords for peers to debate on it, but due to the number of amendments lodged by opponents – more than 1,280 – the house ran out of time,With the parliamentary session coming to an end next week, the bill will fail,That’s all from us on the UK politics blog, thanks for following along,Here is a recap of the day’s events:A proposed bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives will not become law, after the House of Lords ran out of time to debate the more than 1,280 amendments tabled by opponents.

With the parliamentary session coming to an end next week, the bill will fail.Downing Street said the UK’s position on the Falklands is resolute and unchanging, after a leaked Pentagon internal email proposed the US should reassess its support for Britain’s claim to the islands because of a lack of support over Iran.Party leaders were united on the issue, with the Conservative’s Kemi Badenoch describing the US stance was “absolute nonsense”, while Nigel Farage said he would raise the issue personally with Argentina president Javier Milei.The issue is likely to cause further tensions as King Charles prepares to visit the US next week.But Downing Street insisted the state visit will “showcase the very best of the UK-US bilateral relationship”.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the king’s visit to the US should be cancelled,“The state visit should clearly be pulled – this unreliable, damaging president [Donald Trump] cannot keep insulting our country,”In Scotland, the Green party leader Zack Polanski has voiced his support for Scottish independence,“I think there’s something unstoppable about a movement happening in this country,” he said,Polanski also called for Trump to be stripped of his Scottish golf courses over his actions internationally.

The US president owns two golf resorts north of the border, in South Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire, but the Green leader has called on the UK government to sanction him,The UK criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson has reportedly ground to a halt after the US justice department refused to hand over evidence contained in the Epstein files,While the Met has asked for voluntary disclosure, the US department of justice is insisting on a Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) request, a legal back and forth between countries to obtain evidence, the Telegraph has reported,Downing Street said Keir Starmer will stay on as prime minister “throughout this parliament and beyond”, as he faced calls to quit amid the fallout from the Mandelson vetting scandal,The prime minister’s official spokesperson said: “He’s very focused on the job.

”As the debate came to a close, former justice secretary Charlie Falconer, who sponsored the assisted dying bill in the Lords, described the process as “horrible”, saying it had not failed to finish its journey through the Lords due to a lack of time, but rather “because a small minority were not willing to cooperate, as we normally do, to ensure that there can be proportionate debate”.Campaigners have said they could use the Parliament Act to get the bill through if it was selected.That act, a rarely used piece of legislation, allows for bills that have been backed by the Commons in two successive sessions but rejected by peers to pass into law without Lords approval.Falconer told peers: “It is clear that the issue will not go away, nor should it, until it is resolved.Parliament can and must come to a decision.

It is now for the other place to decide what we do next.”He had said earlier that he was “despondent that this bill, so important to so many, has not failed on its merit, but failed as a result of procedural wrangling.”Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who introduced the assisted dying bill to the House of Commons in late 2024, had watched from the gallery as peers debated the proposed legislation in the Lords.As the draft legislation fell, PA reported Leadbetter stood and held her hand to her mouth, shaking her head.Earlier, she said she will again enter her name in the ballot of private members’ bills.

A proposed bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives will not become law, after the House of Lords ran out of time to debate the numerous amendments.The assisted dying bill, which passed the House of Commons in June last year, had 16 days in the Lords for peers to debate on it, but due to the number of amendments lodged by opponents – more than 1,280 – the house ran out of time.With the parliamentary session coming to an end next week, the bill will fail.In Scotland, Green party leader Zack Polanski said there is “something unstoppable” about the movement for Scottish independence.Speaking at a press conference in Glasgow, Polanski has voiced his support for an independent Scotland and said the Westminster Government should “recognise the democratic will of the Scottish people”.

PA has reported some of his remarks:double quotation markI think there’s something unstoppable about a movement happening in this country, and I think the conversation is starting to happen in Wales, too … they’re a few years behind the conversation, I guess, about independence, but it’s certainly starting to bubble away.There’s only so long you can keep people in a system or in a process that is against their will before people understand – they get more resentful, more angry, more frustrated.I think that’s been happening in Scotland for a while and I think it gets to the point where I can’t see why a UK prime minister would want to keep a country in a union who had demonstrated so clearly with votes that they didn’t want to be in that union any more.Nigel Farage said Reform UK will lead a protest through Westminster on Monday to insist fuel duty “must not go up”, PA reports.Fuel duty has been frozen since 2011, and was cut by 5p in 2022 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But at her budget last year, chancellor Rachel Reeves said the 5p cut would phased out from September.Asked about the planned protest, Farage said: “We have got rising prices and we have got from the chancellor, from September, petrol and diesel going up quite significantly over the next few months.“The protest is to say to the chancellor we are paying enough tax, we are paying a big enough price, please stop.”The UK and France have been leading efforts to get the strait of Hormuz reopened, with Keir Starmer and Emmanual Macron hosting talks in Paris with allies to discuss ways to defend the key shipping route.Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defence, is apparently not a fan of the approach, calling it a “silly little conference”.

Speaking at a press conference, he said:double quotation markI know there’s a lot of talks,You saw the, I would call it a silly conference in Europe last week, where they got together and talked about talking about maybe doing something eventually, when things are done,Those are not serious efforts,Follow our Middle East blog here for more of his comments:An excellent read from my colleague Daniel Boffey, after Keir Starmer’s tumultuous week, looking at the relationship history of disputes between the civil service and serving prime ministers,You can read it here:It’s not often the UK’s political leaders are united on an issue, but on the Falklands, they are.

After No 10’s statement that sovereignty of the islands was “not in question” amid reports the US could review its position, Reform UK’s Nigel Farage said he would raise the issue personally with Argentina president Javier Milei.He said:double quotation markThis is utterly non-negotiable.There is no way we’re even going to have a debate about the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.That message of course will go to the Americans, clearly.But equally, I’m going later this year to meet President Milei in Argentina and I shall say ‘look, we want great relations with your country but this is non-negotiable’”.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said the US stance was “absolute nonsense”,She said:double quotation markWe need to make sure that we back the Falklands,They are British territory,I don’t know what Donald Trump is talking about,This sounds like the sort of thing he was saying when it came to Greenland.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the King’s visit to the US should be cancelled:double quotation markThe state visit should clearly be pulled – this unreliable, damaging President cannot keep insulting our country.Assisted dying campaigners are in defiant mood in Parliament Square ahead of the fall of the assisted dying Bill, while opponents celebrate the demise of legislation they deemed “unfit and unsafe”.Demonstrators from multiple pro-choice groups joined Kim Leadbeater – who sponsored the Bill in the Commons – and other MPs to insist this is not the end of their campaign.Around 20 people held placards saying “why did my wife have to go to Switzerland to die?”, “choice”, “I am mourning the assisted dying Bill”, among other slogans.Among the campaigners was Liz Reed, whose brother Rob Smyth died aged 39 through assisted dying in Queensland, Australia, in 2023.

Reed, 40, said he had cancer but his death was “really calm and peaceful and dignified and everything he would have wanted”,She described what had happened with the Bill in the Lords, with a large number of amendments being tabled, as “really shameful, it’s undemocratic, and it completely disregards the people at the heart of this”,However, Paralympic gold medallist wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said supporters of assisted dying were “promised” a version of assisted dying that was never likely to happen,The crossbench peer said the Bill had failed because “there are too many gaps in it”,She said:double quotation markWhile many people have written to me about not wanting to die in pain and suffering, this is not in the Bill.

There is a lot of misunderstanding about what people might get,I really worry that people on the outside have been promised something that they were never going to get,Some think this is about euthanasia, my Lords it is not one pill,Assisted death doesn’t mean that the death is painless, it doesn’t mean it will be quick, and it’s not for some of the groups who think they’re going to get it,Green party leader Zack Polanski has called for Donald Trump to be stripped of his Scottish golf courses over his actions internationally.

Trump owns two golf resorts north of the border, in South Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire, but the Green leader has called on the UK government to sanction him.In response, a spokesperson for Trump International described Polanski as an “imbecile”.At a press conference in Glasgow on Friday, the Green leader had said: “I would like to see Donald Trump kicked out of his golf courses.”Speaking to the Press Association, he added:double quotation markThe key principle here is that you have a man, as we do, who is enabling a genocide in Gaza, who puts on Truth Social that he intends to wipe out an entire civilisation in Iran.Are Scottish people happy with him being able to enjoy the privileges and joys of having a golf course?He says that he loves Scotland – but do the people of Scotland love him?He added:double quotation markI imagine that most people in Scotland, and around the UK, recognise that Donald Trump is an unhinged man.

He’s dangerous, he’s unpredictable, he’s putting our country – both England and Wales and Scotland – in a more dangerous place.By the way, Davey was in Wokingham in Berkshire, where he visited a care home and joined a tea dance to highlight the rising cost of social care.Here are some pictures:The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, has added his voice to the Falkland Islands debate, saying reports suggesting the US might withdraw its support for British control over the archipelago were “absolutely outrageous”.“This is crazy,” he told broadcasters.“Yesterday, president Trump was saying that the state visit by the king would improve relations.

Today he’s threatened tariffs on the UK.And now we have this leaked memo saying he’s threatening British sovereignty in the Falklands.”He added that he believes King Charles’s visit to the US next week “should be pulled”, saying Trump “can’t keep insulting our country”.King Charles’s state visit to the US will “showcase the very best of the UK-US bilateral relationship”, Downing Street has said, despite recent strained relations.“It will underline that this relationship is a deep relationship that goes back decades, and it is one that is forged in history, our people to people ties, as well as our economic, and security and defence relationship,” the Keir Starmer’s official spokesperson said.

The comments came after Donald Trump told the BBC that the king’s state visit next week could “absolutely” help repair relations with the UK.