Assisted dying bill could return after ballot for private member’s bills

Andrew George, the Lib Dem MP for St Ives, says he is considering if he will take on the assisted dying legislation. Photograph: Guerilla Distribution

Campaigners have a narrow path to revive the assisted dying bill after two MPs who backed it came in the top five of the new private member’s bill ballot.

Supporters of Kim Leadbeater’s original private member’s bill, which ran out of time to be passed, have the chance to use the Parliament Act to bypass the Lords if they can persuade another MP to take it through the Commons again.