Keir Starmer under pressure over assisted dying law as 100 Labour MPs make major demand

Sebastian Ujică

More than 100 Labour MPs have written to Keir Starmer urging him to save plans to legalise assisted dying amid accusations critics are set to block it from becoming law. MPs passed historic legislation to allow terminally ill people to end their lives last June but the Bill has since stalled in the House of Lords. More than 1,200 amendments have been tabled and very slow progress in debating them means that time is set to run out given the Parliamentary session ends in May. With three days