Repeatedly Sir Chris and other witnesses begged MPs to keep the law on assisted dying 'clear and simple'. He added: 'The more ambiguity, the more difficult it becomes for patients and families'.
These are bumpy days for Lords of the Bedchamber. They, in history, were a king's most intimate courtiers, their fortunes closely allied to those of the monarch they served.
No longer mistress of all she surveys, no longer empress of the horizon, Rachel Reeves crouched on the Commons front bench with a knot of her closest supporters. Six fretful souls at a bus stop.