Ella’s Law, otherwise known as the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, has already passed the Lords and now it is in the queue of private members’ bills waiting to come before the Commons.
It would establish the human right to breathe clean air explicitly in UK law for the first time. It’s named after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, a little girl from Lewisham who died in 2013 as a result of an asthma attack. She was the first person in Britain to have had air pollution listed as the cause of her death. The progress of Ella’s Law owes much to the efforts of her mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-
