内容摘要：Officials and civil servants have been advising Leadbeater on drafting amendments, including suggesting changes the government wants.

Officials and civil servants have been advising Leadbeater on drafting amendments, including suggesting changes the government wants.

Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie told the chamber that she was still receiving correspondence moments before heading into the debate.Reciting some of the examples of deeply personal testimony she had been sent, she said that "all of these stories weigh heavily in our decision-making".

We also may never know how big of an impact the interventions from the likes of John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon had.While they didn't mount campaigns or try to nudge members into backing their position, the arguments of leadership figures could have had outsize influence in the minds of swithering backbenchers.Ultimately this was a day for ordinary members. Neil Gray was the only minister to speak in the debate - and even then to underline that he was going to abstain as health secretary.

Party leaders largely stayed out of it too - including Anas Sarwar, to the extent that he didn't even appear to be present.The Labour leader did register a vote against the bill, but spent the day posting pictures online of himself campaigning in a by-election contest.

There was another theme which crept into the debate - that as pivotal as this moment was, it was far from the final word on this issue.

Labour's Daniel Johnson was the first to say he was voting in favour at stage one, but would "reserve judgement" on the final form of the bill.The level of benefit from Covid vaccines is well documented. And the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is

in the first year of its use than any other - 6.3m globally compared to 5.9m for Pfizer/BioNTech’s jab.However, we need to discuss not just the huge positives that Covid vaccines brought, but also the small minority left injured or bereaved by the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Around 50 families affected by rare blood clots have begun a group legal action for compensation under the Consumer Protection Act, arguing that the vaccine was not as safe as the public were entitled to expect.This includes people who have been left with severe physical injuries, those who are unable to work, and bereaved families who lost a loved one due to vaccine damage.