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Daniel Gover
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Daniel Gover
@DanielGover
Senior Lecturer in British Politics, @QMPoliticsIR. Researching UK politics and parliament: legislation, opposition days, private members' bills, procedure.
London Katılım Mart 2010
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Very pleased to have been able to contribute to the latest Commons Library briefing paper on private members’ bills. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…
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It is very definitely *not* “routine” for the Lords to fail to pass PMBs that have passed the Commons. Quite the opposite.
(Of course this bill is not “routine” either - but that is beside the point.)
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot
EXC - Senior backers of the assisted dying bill now believe it will fall in the House of Lords. It's causing fury among MPs who backed it. Opponents say this is routine for private members bills and supporters should not have misled public on bill's chances.
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New piece by me for @ConversationUK, explaining yesterday’s Lords vote on under-16s’ social media use.
‘The House of Lords has voted to stop under 16s using social media – what happens now?’
theconversation.com/the-house-of-l…
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A very interesting @MileEndInst event today for @QMUL students about the budget.
Frank and insightful analysis from @p_ikek @JadeFrancesAzim @LeeDavidEvansUK, chaired by @DanielGover
Very good student turnout and questions.
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Additional time in the Lords announced for the assisted dying bill. Seemed inevitable this would be needed, given exceptionally large number of amendments tabled - as recently documented by @mattengland3011 @HansardSociety.
Paul Brand@PaulBrandITV
BREAKING: The Chief Whip in the House of Lords has assigned an extra ten days in the new year for the assisted dying bill to be debated. This makes it far less likely that the bill will run out of time.
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I've written about how recognition of a Palestinian state has been a Labour position for years.
In 2014, @grahamemorris moved a motion, 'That this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel'
unherd.com/newsroom/labou…
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Very happy to be back on the Parliament Matters podcast, discussing the latest developments on the assisted dying bill with @RuthFox01 & @mattengland3011. Thank you for having me!
Listen to it here: pod.link/1714627828/epi…
@HansardSociety
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The assisted dying bill begins its substantive Lords scrutiny this Friday.
Re-posting my piece on what we should expect now that the Lords has the bill. theconversation.com/assisted-dying…
#assisteddyingbill
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“True political strength lies not in the ability to punish dissent, but in the confidence to accommodate it”
Insightful piece by @Tony_McNulty on how the government whips are responding to backbench disquiet.
theconversation.com/starmers-suspe…
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“You're picking people who you believe that you can pick on and that's bullying, that's not discipline.”
Starmer suspending MPs is “punishment” for being “prematurely correct” on government policy, says former political secretary for Tony Blair, @JohnMcTernan.
@StigAbell
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I was interviewed on Today in Parliament on Radio 4 on Friday, discussing how the #assisteddyingbill might fare in the House of Lords.
Listen here (around 7 mins in): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
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"They say “never meet your heroes” – but meeting your antiheroes can be absolutely fascinating. At least, that was my experience when I met Norman Tebbit." Me for the @Independent on why he was so much more than simply "the Chingford skinhead". 1/n independent.co.uk/voices/norman-…
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This is an excellent & useful insightful comparison of similar events from QMUL colleague @richardmarcj. Blair showed leadership but didn’t bear grudges. Corston went on to share PM PPS duties with Bruce Grocott.
@UnHerd unherd.com/2025/06/what-s…
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New Lords Friday sittings, for scrutiny of assisted dying bill. 👇
For more on what we might expect when the bill reaches the Lords, I wrote something here:
‘Assisted dying: what happens now the House of Lords has the bill?’
theconversation.com/assisted-dying…
Nikki da Costa@nmdacosta
More sitting Fridays have been added in the Lords for the AS/AD bill Friday 12 Sept - second reading Friday 24 October - c’ttee starts Friday 31 October Friday 14 November Friday 21 November Friday 5 December Friday 12 December
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Few things to note about 'reasoned amendments':
1. Reasoned amendments are procedurally equivalent to rejecting a Bill: voting for it is voting to reject a bill for specific reasons which are put on the record.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
NEW: A reasoned amendment to the welfare bill is being tabled by 13 Labour committee chairs as first reported by @romillyweeks It creates a big problem for Keir Starmer & Liz Kendall with around 80 Labour MPs already backing the amendment. If selected, it would give them chance to oppose second reading of bill because of issues incl poverty, lack of consultation, impact assessments and employment support. With rebellion still brewing, it could force govt to compromise, or else it could ultimately kill the bill, leaving govt with a £5bn black hole to fill and seriously humiliated by own party.
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After last week's vote in the Commons, could the assisted dying bill be blocked in the Lords? New piece by me for @ConversationUK.
'Assisted dying: what happens now the House of Lords has the bill?'
theconversation.com/assisted-dying…
#AssistedDyingBill
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Assisted dying bill has been approved by MPs. Has cleared the Commons chamber.
Now will move to the Lords where must go through an equivalent set of stages. Story not over yet!
Daniel Gover@DanielGover
Whatever happens, that the #assisteddyingbill has made it to a final Commons third reading vote is remarkable given the procedural challenges facing private members’ bills. MPs on all sides deserve credit for enabling it to be decided on its merits rather than procedural games.
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Whatever happens, that the #assisteddyingbill has made it to a final Commons third reading vote is remarkable given the procedural challenges facing private members’ bills.
MPs on all sides deserve credit for enabling it to be decided on its merits rather than procedural games.
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@danny_webster I am writing something on the Lords as we speak. I think the answer is probably the bill needs to complete by the end of the session. We don't yet know when that will be, but I think the expectation is autumn sometime. But the Lords isn't tied to Fridays in the same way.
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@DanielGover If it passes 3rd reading, what's the timescale for the Lords? Could Lords committee stage be as long as it was in the Commons?
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Key points from #assisteddyingbill debate.
⚫️ Report stage not concluded today; will resume next Friday.
⚫️ Majority behind bill supporters largely holding up.
⚫️ But majority overcome on one new clause.
⚫️ Bill supporters will be optimistic - but too soon to be sure.
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This is not to claim that the assisted dying bill has had 'enough' scrutiny. There could always be more. In a chamber of 650 members, it's inevitable many won't get to speak.
But the comparison does illustrate that this bill has had far more scrutiny time than most bills get.
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This letter claims insufficient scrutiny of #assisteddyingbill & makes point it's 'now longer than the Government's Border Security [etc] Bill'.
But BSAI Bill had:
⚫️ 3.5 hours for report and third reading (cf 3 days on assisted dying).
⚫ 12 committee sittings (cf 29).
Paul Brand@PaulBrandITV
NEW: More than 50 Labour MPs have written to the Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, asking for more parliamentary time to scrutinise the Assisted Dying Bill. With a final(ish) vote due this Friday, they say the bill is being amended up to the 11th hour.
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