Dear SPUC supporter,

Next week, the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill will be debated for the first time in the House of Lords. While any real change is likely to happen at the following Report and Committee stages, the Second Reading debate on 12 September will be crucial in setting the tone for later developments. 151 peers have already put their name down to speak.

How do we influence Peers in the House of Lords? We are very used to lobbying our MPs, but perhaps less used to trying to sway the views of members of the Upper House.

There are definitely challenges. There isn’t one particular peer I can tell you to contact – there isn’t one who represents you particularly, as with MPs – so a bit more work and research is required. On the other hand, you are not limited to contacting one peer, as you are with MPs!

Here’s two ways in which you can influence members of the House of Lords.

Writing

Writing directly to Lords is the most effective way of lobbying them. They don’t get the same level of correspondence as MPs, so your letters will not be fighting for attention. We recommend paper letters at this stage, both because they are more impactful, and also because many peers do not have publicly available email addresses!

Our briefing, How to Write to Members of the House of Lords on Pro-Life Issues, explains the role and function of the Lords, and gives suggestions on choosing peers to write to. You can also use our online tool, which selects a random peer for you to write to, and guides you through the process of writing and posting your letter.
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I explain in more detail how and why we should write to the Lords in the video below - give it a watch!
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Getting your views into newspapers

Another great way to influence peers is to write letters to newspapers. Members will sit in the House of Lords Library reading through the broadsheet newspapers. They will notice letters on a topic that they are about to debate in Parliament, like assisted suicide.

If you have already written to Lords, you can adapt that letter to send to newspapers. As with writing to politicians, use your own personal experience and concerns, for instance as a medic, or of caring for a disabled relative.

Here are the email addresses for the major broadsheet newspapers:

Newspaper Email Address
The Times [email protected]
The Sunday Times [email protected]
The Telegraph [email protected]
The Guardian [email protected]
Financial Times [email protected]
The Independent [email protected]
Please consider if this is something you are able to do. Not all letters will be published, but the more of us that try, the greater the success rate will be!

Thank you for all you do to campaign against assisted suicide.
Alithea Williams
Public Policy Manager
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