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I'm Sean Curran and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Friday the 20th of March,

when there were complaints of time wasting as members of the Lords continued their debate on assisted dying.

We will not have the opportunity to make a vote because people going on and on and on.

Could better maths education have prevented the student loans crisis?

Imagine if parents had had stronger numeracy schools and could have warned their children of the

quagmire of debt that they were getting themselves into. And a call for ministers to update their

elections bill to tackle online misinformation. The bill is very analogue. It looks at in-person threats.

And what we've tried to do is represent some of the digital threats that are facing elections.

Now, at the start of this week, more than 150 MPs wrote to the Prime Minister

asking him to make sure Parliament was given more time to come to a decision on assisted dying in England and Wales.

One of the organisers of the Open Letter,

the Labour MP and Doctor Peter Prinsley,

complained that a small number of peers

had used procedural tactics

to block the terminally ill adults' end-of-life bill in the House of Lords.

This is the bill that would give adults with less than six

months to live the right to ask for help to end their lives. More than a thousand amendments

have been tabled and only about half of them have been debated. It may be that they have every

right to do it but I would challenge that this is democracy. The members of the House of Lords are not

elected. These are people who have been appointed for one reason or another, and the purpose of the

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