Chris

The Scottish one is running into trouble because the promised safeguards for professionals affected by it (doctors, care home staff etc) can’t be legislated for by the Scottish parliament, as employment law is reserved. So the relevant clauses have been stripped out in committee stage leaving a draft bill which has no safeguards in it at all, and a vague promise that Westminster will deal with that part later. A lot of MSPs are now nervous about it and there’s a reasonable chance it will now fail.

Meanwhile down in Englandshire the House of Lords has spent weeks refusing to be steamrolled and seeing as the appointed upper chamber is not vulnerable to virtue signalling and fashionable progressive causes in the way the commons is, has been digging its heels in and refusing to wave through a lot of the badly worded guff that got through committee in the commons.

I think you’re right, there’s a symbiotic relationship between the parliaments on this issue and one very much needs the other to give it a push, however at the moment my prediction is on it failing narrowly, in Scotland, and then running out of time in Westminster because the Lords is quite rightly treating it as a badly written private members bill that didn’t feature in the Labour manifesto, without the usual expectation that they will make constructive comments and then bow to the will of the elected chamber.