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MPs to vote Friday on revived assisted dying bill amid warnings against forcing it through
September 10, 2026 at 04:05 PM · Updated 36d ago
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5 reports · over 13 hours
BNBBC News
MPs to vote on legalising assisted dying in England and Wales
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TGThe Guardian
Esther Rantzen now ‘too physically fragile’ to end her life in Switzerland
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BNBBC News
Esther Ranzen says she is too fragile to travel to Switzerland to end life
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BNBBC News
Why are MPs voting on assisted dying again?
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TGThe Guardian
MPs on both sides urge Commons not to take ‘extraordinary risk’ of forcing through assisted dying bill
(opens the publisher’s site)The Commons will vote Friday on Labour MP Lauren Edwards' revived bill to legalise assisted dying, as MPs on both sides warn against using the Parliament Act to override the Lords.
- Lauren Edwards has revived the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would allow adults with fewer than six months to live to end their lives after approval by two doctors and an expert panel.
- The same bill passed the Commons in June 2025 with a majority of 23 but stalled in the Lords, where peers tabled more than 1,200 amendments before time ran out.
- Labour MPs Gareth Snell and Meg Hillier have urged colleagues not to invoke the 1911 Parliament Act to bypass the Lords, warning it would lead to "a constitutional showdown."
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he will not vote on the bill, calling the issue "a matter for Parliament to decide."
Latest developments
- Sep 10 — Dame Esther Rantzen, terminally ill with stage four lung cancer, has said she is now too physically fragile to travel to Switzerland to end her life at Dignitas.
- Sep 10 — She has reiterated her plea for MPs to vote for the assisted dying bill on Friday, calling the current law 'messy and cruel' and urging it to 'change and change quickly'.