Assisted Dying Bill MP ‘Confident’ Commons Will Vote Yes Despite PM Abstaining
Lauren Edwards says she is confident the measure will pass as MPs prepare to revisit a bill that would let terminally ill adults seek assisted death.
- Lauren Edwards is leading the Terminally Ill Adults Bill back to the Commons on September 11, proposing to allow adults in England and Wales with fewer than six months to live to apply for an assisted death.
- Although the Bill passed two previous votes, the majority in favour narrowed to 23 from 55 in 2025; it previously fell in April after running out of time in the last parliamentary session.
- Disability rights coalition Assist Us To Live, backed by actress Liz Carr and comedian Rosie Jones, is urging MPs to vote down the Bill, demanding better social care and palliative funding instead.
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham will abstain to avoid influencing the debate, a move Edwards called "an entirely appropriate response," and she remains confident the legislation will pass the upcoming vote.
- Pro-Change campaigners have considered using the Parliament Act to bypass the House of Lords if they reject the Bill, though Edwards hopes to avoid that route and "disincentivise" peers from blocking it.
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Assisted dying Bill MP ‘confident’ Commons will vote yes despite PM abstaining
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