Assisted Dying: how MPs voted and what it tells us about ‘cross-party consensus’
The majority of Conservative MPs voted against (an 80/20 split, so a score of 0.60), along with most of the independents who voted, and the majority of the MPs from Northern Ireland (the DUP’s 1.0 score mirroring the Greens). And the SNP abstained en bloc.
High profile supporters of legalising assisted dying include Dame Esther Rantzen who is terminally ill and has pleaded with the public to write to their MPs to ask for “the right to choose ...
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is putting forward the bill and said "now is the time" to hold a fresh debate on assisted dying, after MPs rejected a bill on the issue in 2015. Prime Minister Sir Keir ...
The Labour MP who has put forward historic proposals to legalise assisted dying has told MPs they have a “duty to fix things that aren’t right”. Kim Leadbeater said “even with the best ...
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