Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP behind the assisted dying Bill, has expressed discomfort with a former prime minister's description of it as the "assisted suicide bill". Theresa May is among the peers ...

A Labour MP has revealed how a call with campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen helped persuade her to push for an historic House of Commons vote on assisted dying. Kim Leadbeater, the MP for Spen Valley, ...

The Labour MP behind the assisted dying bill has proposed scrapping the requirement for a High Court judge to approve each assisted death. Kim Leadbeater proposed removing the safeguard after retired ...

The MP behind a bill that would legalise assisted dying has said she is confident it will pass the House of Commons in a historic vote tomorrow. Kim Leadbeater introduced the Terminally Ill Adults ...

Prue Leith has explained why she thinks her son Danny Kruger is so strongly opposed to the legalisation of assisted dying. The TV chef appeared in a new Channel 4 documentary with Kruger, the ...

A conservative member of parliament in Canada is warning its impending approval of assisted suicide for mental health patients is creating a "culture of death." Conservative MP Ed Fast, who tried and ...

Chris Coghlan, the Liberal Democrat MP for Dorking and Horley, condemned what he called "outrageous" behaviour by the priest after he voted in favour of the bill. The priest contacted Mr Coghlan in ...

Only one Northern Ireland MP voted in favour of a bill which would legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. SDLP MP for Foyle Colum Eastwood backed the bill, as it was supported by a majority of ...

A Cumbrian MP has indicated that he is likely to vote against the assisted dying bill - despite previously voting for it. The Labour MP for Penrith and Solway Markus Campbell-Savours told the BBC that ...

An MP has been offered the use of a private ambulance to bring her to parliament amid fears the hugely controversial assisted dying bill could come down to just a single vote. Sorcha Eastwood, a ...

The MP behind a bill that would legalise assisted dying has said she is confident it will pass the House of Commons in a historic vote tomorrow. Kim Leadbeater introduced the Terminally Ill Adults ...