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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Savage Policy Editor

Assisted dying supporters court Tories to bolster cross-party appeal

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A disability campaigner from Dignity in Dying at the Houses of Parliament in London on 29 April. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Supporters of an assisted dying law in England and Wales are ­battling to stop the issue from splitting along party political lines after all four Tory leadership candidates ­suggested they would vote against the historic change.

An all-important House of Commons vote on the issue could now be just weeks away after it was revealed that Labour MP Kim Leadbeater would be introducing a private member’s bill that would give some terminally ill adults the option of being helped to end their lives.

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