Jess Phillips says she'll vote for assisted dying law - 'I have experience of watching people die in pain'

Magda Gheorghiță

Home Office minister Jess Phillips has said she will vote in favour of legalising assisted dying . Just days before the first vote on the issue in almost a decade , the senior Labour MP said she had "experience of watching people die in pain". Her comments came as another poll showed majority support - 65% - in favour of changing the law on assisted dying, with just 13% against. The Bill - put forward by Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater - proposes giving terminally ill adults with less than