Weekly Survey: The NPF, Assisted Dying Bill and Miliband and Obama meet

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Labour held its final major National Policy Forum (NPF) meeting at the weekend to finalise positions on a whole swathe of of policy areas. LabourList covered it in depth – not only did we run a comprehensive liveblog all weekend and have first coverage of Ed Miliband’s speech, we also had reactions from those that were there. It was a weekend of “consensus, not conservatism” according to our Contributing Editor (and NPF delegate) Emma Burnell, while Mark Ferguson reckoned it meant a “reorientation of what it means to be Labour”, and Alice Perry gave the rallying cry: “We’ve got the policies, now let’s win the election”.

That was their view, but what are your thoughts on it?

On Friday, the House of Lords debated a bill put forward by Labour peer Lord Falconer, proposing the legalisation of ‘assisted dying’. We covered the Assisted Dying Bill here, although with Parliament in recess there will be no vote until after the summer.

Is the bill something you would support? Or does it need further safeguards?

On Sunday, Ed Miliband flew out to the USA for a series of meetings in Washington. On Monday, he had a 25 minute conversation with President Obama. They discussed Ukraine, Gaza, Europe, the economy and Scottish independence – and you can see the photo here.

Do you think the trip was a success? Let us know in our Weekly Survey.

The survey will be open until Thursday at noon, and can be taken here.

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