House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP

2026-03-20 - 13:29

Kim Leadbeater joins protest against delaying of bill to allow assisted dying in the UK and says people are ‘extremely angry’ The House of Lords “signed its own death warrant” over its stalling of the UK assisted dying bill, MP Kim Leadbeater said on Friday as she joined more than a dozen terminally ill and bereaved people in protest outside parliament. Marking the second anniversary of the death at Dignitas of prominent assisted dying campaigner Paola Marra, 53, Leadbeater, the MP for Spen Valley whose private members teminally ill adults (end of life) bill for England and Wales looks set to run out of time, said many MPs, who had already voted by a majority to pass the bill, were “angry and upset” by the addition of about 1,200 amendments in the Lords, which will probably see the bill fall without a vote. Continue reading...