In a late-night session in the House of Lords, peers yesterday delivered a powerful challenge to proposal to radically alter the legal framework governing abortion in the UK.
The abortion debate in Greece, long regarded by the political establishment as settled and closed, has been unexpectedly reopened by a figure whose growing political significance has unsettled the entire system.
The unusually blunt language has raised eyebrows across Westminster, not least because the APM has historically been careful and restrained when engaging on assisted suicide.
Ireland came within a single vote of a dramatic further expansion of abortion law this week that would have decriminalised abortion and removed key safeguards.
Labour Ministers have been accused of interfering in Scottish affairs and trying to bury bad news by making the announcement on the last day of Parliament before Christmas.