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title: "Assisted dying bill 2.0, Makerfield by-election and Starmer's plan to ban social media"
date: 2026-06-17T12:21:00+01:00
author: Zanna Meynell
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## Assisted dying bill 2.0, Makerfield by-election and Starmer's plan to ban social media

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  On today’s episode of Cross Section, Peter Lynas, Alicia Edmund and Danny Webster try to make sense of Lauren Edward’s decision to reintroduce the assisted suicide bill, t-up the political permutations ahead of Thursday’s Makerfield by-election and discuss the government’s latest announcement about a social media ban for under 16-year-olds. The team bring a Christian perspective to each story, helping us engage and pointing us to pray.

[https://​who​caniv​ote​for​.co​.uk/](https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/)

[https://​www​.wigan​.gov​.uk/​D​o​c​s​/​P​D​F​/​C​o​u​n​c​i​l​/​V​o​t​i​n​g​-​a​n​d​-​E​l​e​c​t​i​o​n​s​/​2​0​2​6​/​M​a​k​e​r​f​i​e​l​d​/​E​l​e​c​t​i​o​n​-​A​g​e​n​t​-​N​o​t​i​c​e​-​M​a​k​e​r​f​i​e​l​d​-​2​0​2​6.pdf](https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Council/Voting-and-Elections/2026/Makerfield/Election-Agent-Notice-Makerfield-2026.pdf)

 

 

  #### Chapters:

 

  0:00 Introduction  
0:49 Pharrell Williams’ ​“The One“  
2:35 World Cup prayer circle  
3:35 Webinars: Christian Nationalism and Islam  
5:41 US-Iran Ceasefire  
5:41 Assisted suicide bill returns  
15:46 Makerfield by-election  
22:48 Social Media ban for under-16s  
33:03 Close