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Political news and analysis from The Herald’s top team in Holyrood. @andrewlearmonth @kacnutt @_RebeccaMcCurdy @HannahMargBrown

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Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth·
EXC: Reform has suspended its Holyrood candidate in Dundee City West after it emerged he agreed to a seven-year disqualification from acting as a company director over misuse of a taxpayer-backed Covid loan. @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/news/25953458.…
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Hannah Brown@HannahMargBrown·
🗳️Holyrood has rejected the assisted dying Bill- but the debate is far from over. @heraldscotland Unspun: Why lived experience from both sides isn’t a distraction from lawmaking, but essential to understanding how such legislation would work in practice. heraldscotland.com/news/25947772.…
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Rebecca McCurdy@_RebeccaMcCurdy·
Anas Sarwar has been told to apologise to stroke survivors after he made an inappropriate joke at the end of a press conference today. Chest Heart and Stroke has said it "diminishes" the suffering of survivors and their families. Story @heraldscotland 👇heraldscotland.com/news/25948079.…
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Pan Duncan-Glancy says she is relieved after the assisted dying proposals fell in Holyrood tonight.
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Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth·
NEW: Brian Whittle becomes sixth MSP to withdraw support for assisted dying Bill. On current numbers, it’s now effectively 63–63. In a tie, the Presiding Officer uses her casting vote and by convention backs the status quo, meaning, if numbers above are right, the Bill falls
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Daniel Johnson confirms he will vote against the assisted dying Bill tonight. By my reckoning, if just one more MSP who backed it at Stage 1 switches, and no one moves from no to yes, the Bill is likely to fall.

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"It was beautiful. I wish that death for myself. I wish it for anyone who wants it for themselves." Lorna Slater tells MSPs about her father's assisted death in Canada.
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Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth·
Daniel Johnson confirms he will vote against the assisted dying Bill tonight. By my reckoning, if just one more MSP who backed it at Stage 1 switches, and no one moves from no to yes, the Bill is likely to fall.
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Jeremy Balfour tells MSPs that disabled people are "frightened" by the assisted dying Bill. "Colleagues, friends, I am begging you to consider what the consequences of passing this bill will be for the most vulnerable in our communities," he says.
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George Adam tells MSPs his wife Stacey, who has MS, "was ever facing unbearable suffering at the end of life, she would want a choice.”
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In the assisted dying debate, Pam Duncan-Glancy tells MSPs that disabled people are already living “without choice”.
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Maggie Chapman tells MSPs assisted dying is about giving people control, dignity and peace.
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During the assisted dying debate, former first minister Humza Yousaf says that a "society that leaves someone with a terminal diagnosis believing that their only options are either to endure intolerable suffering or end their life prematurely, is a society that has failed them".
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Speaking during the Assisted Dying debate, Alex Cole-Hamilton says that while he has no fear of death, he has "abundant fear of dying". He says the law as it stands, "makes death a lottery".
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As his assisted dying bill reaches its final vote, an emotional Liam McArthur urges MSPs to "have the voices of dying Scots at the front of their minds when they come to vote". He shares the words of Lisa Fleming, who has secondary breast cancer.
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Craig Fowler ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿@craigfowler86·
Delighted to finally announce this. It's a move which will enable us to grow and, more importantly, we now have a website where quality writing will go along with our inane drivel on the podcast. First up, I wrote about what The Terrace is all about. theterrace.scot/news/25942413.…
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