{"id":579191,"date":"2025-11-18T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:52:14","slug":"brexit-blocking-peers-come-over-all-democratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/579191\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit-blocking peers come over all democratic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial assisted suicide debate is back in the House of Lords, being pored over by peers. Last week, ahead of the first session, 65 peers including two former cabinet secretaries wrote an open letter urging their colleagues not to block the Bill, saying: \u2018It is not our role to frustrate the clear democratic mandate expressed by elected MPS.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But 21 of the signatories \u2013 including Lord Kinnock, the former Labour leader, Baroness Brinton, the former Lib Dem president and Lord O\u2019donnell, an ex Cabinet Secretary \u2013 took a rather different view to Brexit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailplus.co.uk\/edition\/comment\/andrew-pierce\/433379\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mailplus.co.uk\/edition\/comment\/andrew-pierce\/433379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The controversial assisted suicide debate is back in the House of Lords, being pored over by peers. Last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-579191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115573158438550060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}