MPs led by Keir Starmer vote to legalise assisted dying

Assisted dying is set to become legal after MPs backed the biggest change to suicide law in decades despite warnings people will die unnecessarily. Medics will be allowed to help the terminally ill end their own lives after a bitterly contested vote in the Commons this afternoon. MPs voted by 314 to 291 - a majority of 23 - to approve Kim Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill despite warnings that it was rushed through and could negatively affect the disabled, domestic abuse victims and people with anorexia.