The Tories plotting against the bill are a gleeful Lords reunion of the old Brexit gang – Michael Gove, David Frost, Mark Harper and Thérèse Coffey – reprising the same dirty tricks with the same cunning. They know the loss will humiliate Labour and Starmer, who gave time for this private member’s bill. Absurdly, opponents deny this is a filibuster, but watch them tomorrow in the Lords and see them talk very slowly, making identical speeches on identical or crass amendments. Last week, they piled into the preceding debate on the agenda to waste maximum time before assisted dying came up. I’ve never seen any of them show any interest before in a bill on rare cancers, but suddenly they grew loquacious.