Keir Starmer under pressure to allow vote as private member’s bill to be introduced in upper chamberKeir Starmer is under pressure to fulfil a promise to allow a parliamentary vote on legalising assisted dying as a bill is to be introduced into the House of Lords on Friday.Lord Falconer, who was lord chancellor in Tony Blair’s government, will propose a private member’s bill to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults after coming second in a ballot of peers last week. Continue reading…
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Author : Harriet Sherwood
Publish date : 2024-07-26 05:00:42
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Assisted dying bill to be introduced into House of Lords
