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Fall of assisted dying Bill ‘heartbreaking’ for some but welcomed by opponents

Prime Minister Andy Burnham did not vote, having already confirmed he would abstain so as not to ‘unduly influence the debate’.

Evening Standard

Why did MPs vote to reject the assisted dying bill – and what happens now?

MPs at Westminster have voted to reject the assisted dying bill, in a significant blow to those campaigning to change the law – 11 years to the day after MPs rejected a previous attempt.

The Conversation

Assisted dying bill: What happens now?

The bill was voted down by a majority of 16 on Friday

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Six in 10 people support return of the assisted dying bill to parliament

MPs will debate and vote on the legislation when it returns to the House of Commons on Friday

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham says he will not vote on assisted dying bill to avoid swaying debate

Exclusive: PM also warns his ministers against trying to influence vote when bill returns to Commons next month

The Guardian - UK

Jo Cox’s murder prompted calls for a ‘kinder, gentler politics’. Why has intolerance prevailed?

The late MP’s family, politicians and academics on the factors they believe have heightened division in the last 10 years

The Guardian - UK

Murdered MP Jo Cox would be deeply concerned by divisions in UK, says sister

Kim Leadbeater says it is crucial to ‘push back’ on divisive rhetoric and dangerous language.

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Kim Leadbeater calls for unity on anniversary of sister Jo Cox’s murder

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The Independent UK

Division in UK probably worse now than in run-up to Brexit, says Jo Cox’s sister Kim Leadbeater

Labour MP warns of voices fanning hatred on eve of 10th anniversary of the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox

The Guardian - UK

Jo Cox’s sister warns of UK’s ‘divisive rhetoric and dangerous language’ ten years after MP’s murder

‘You’ve got to decide if you want to take the debate forward and you want to work on solutions’, says Kim Leadbeater, a decade after her sister’s murder

The Independent UK

MP reigniting assisted dying debate says faith in democracy must be restored

Lauren Edwards said she was ‘really disappointed and quite frustrated’ when the Bill ran out of time in the House of Lords.

Evening Standard

Attempt to reintroduce assisted dying bill sparks new Labour civil war

Rochester and Strood MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce Kim Leadbeater’s highly controversial Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which would allow assisted deaths in England and Wales

The Independent UK

Assisted dying Bill to be reintroduced as MP urges peers ‘not to block it’

Labour MP Lauren Edwards has launched a fresh bid to legalise assisted dying, after the Bill fell in the Lords in April.

Evening Standard

Jo Cox’s sister: ‘Brexit campaign made us see each other as enemies. We’ve never recovered’

Exclusive: Speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of the MP’s death in June 2016, Kim Leadbeater said it would have been ‘very easy’ for her ‘to use the anger I felt to sow division’ – as she urges people to remember her sibling’s message of hope

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Evening Standard

Do not use your anger to create chaos, pleads sister of murdered MP

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said it was not right to ‘vilify an entire community or an entire group of people who might not look like you do’.

The Guardian - UK

MPs who backed assisted dying bill don’t expect it to return via act that bypasses Lords

Prominent backers including Louise Haigh say they would not support using Parliament Acts to pass bill

The Guardian - UK

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

Two MPs who came in top five of draw backed Kim Leadbeater’s bill in the Commons

The Guardian - UK

‘I want my choice’: terminally ill people join Rankin to demand revival of assisted dying bill

British photographer collaborates with Dignity in Dying in run-up to private member’s ballot, after stalling of England and Wales bill in Lords

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UK House of Lords accused of 'obstructionism' as time runs out on assisted dying bill

MPs in the House of Commons had backed legalising euthanasia for adults who have been given less than six months to live and can clearly express a wish to die, in a historic vote last June.

The Guardian - UK

MPs vow to bring back assisted dying bill after ‘undemocratic’ Lords block

Labour’s Kim Leadbeater tells of plan to table identical bill that peers would be unable to stop

The Guardian - UK

My assisted dying bill has a democratic mandate – the Lords who blocked it today do not

There is a way to bring this back to parliament. We owe it to the brave terminally ill people who have been so let down to try, says Labour MP Kim Leadbeater

Evening Standard

Assisted dying Bill runs out of time but supporters vow fight is not over

The Bill had proposed allowing adults in England and Wales to apply for an assisted death.

Evening Standard

Terminally ill ‘bewildered’ at failure of assisted dying Bill, says chief backer

The Bill will fall at the end of Friday’s session.

The Independent UK

The assisted dying Bill has run out of time – but could still become law. Here’s how

More than 1,200 suggested changes were tabled in the Lords to the Bill

The Independent UK

Kim Leadbeater warns UK ‘not in a better place’ on political violence 10 years since sister Jo Cox’s murder

Jo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater has warned that the UK is "not in a better place" on political violence 10 years since the Labour MP was murdered.

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