Does parliament know how to legislate?
From our UK edition
Tomorrow the Welsh Senedd votes on whether to give legislative consent to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. We write not to reopen the debate about the principles or ethics of assisted suicide. We write because the Bill’s treatment of Wales is a constitutional and legislative failure serious enough that it deserves to be named clearly, by people with the legal and political experience to do so. You do not need to be a supporter of devolution to find what follows troubling. You need only believe that when parliament creates institutions with defined responsibilities, it should legislate coherently with that fact. This Bill does not. Health is fully devolved in Wales.
