Where do Labour cabinet ministers stand on assisted dying bill? - Politics.co.uk

Labour MPs to debate and vote on proposals to give terminally ill people the right to choose to end their life.

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be debated at second reading on 29 November .

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is understood to support a change in the law himself.

But some senior cabinet ministers have stated their intention to vote against the bill.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he will not vote against the bill proposed by Kim Leadbeater .

Liz Kendall , Ed Miliband and Peter Kyle voted in favour of changing the law in 2015 .

Jonathan Reynolds and Bridget Phillipson also voted against assisted dying.

Peter Kyle said: “In the most profound moment in our life, we have no control at all at all the moment of death, I think this is wrong”.

Lisa Nandy declared her support Leadbeater’s bill, telling the BBC that the current system is unsustainable’ Hilary Benn , the Northern Ireland secretary and the Scotland secretary voted in favour of changing the law in 2015 .

Lucy Powell , the leader of the House of Commons , has not publicly commented on the matter publicly.