{"id":93003,"date":"2024-07-12T00:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/starmer-doubles-down-on-promise-for-assisted-dying-vote-but-hints-it-could-take-a-year\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T00:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:18:06","slug":"starmer-doubles-down-on-promise-for-assisted-dying-vote-but-hints-it-could-take-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/starmer-doubles-down-on-promise-for-assisted-dying-vote-but-hints-it-could-take-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer ‘doubles down’ on promise for assisted dying vote – but hints it could take a year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sir Keir Starmer has “doubled down” on his promise to hold a free vote on assisted dying in the future.<\/p>\n

The new prime minister<\/strong><\/a> has not committed to a timeline for considering a change of law, although hinted it may not be in the coming year.<\/p>\n

But his stance is that MPs will be able to choose to vote with their conscience, rather than along party lines.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on his trip to NATO in the US, the new prime minister was asked when he would hold the vote he had previously promised on the topic.<\/p>\n

He said: “What I said was that we would provide time for this, obviously by way of a private member’s bill.”<\/p>\n

A private member’s bill is a proposed change of law suggested in the Commons by an MP and not on behalf of the government.<\/p>\n

The prime minister added: “There’ll be a free vote – that remains my position for reasons I set out.<\/p>\n

“Having probably got more experience in this than most people having personally, looked at, tens of cases in my time as director of public prosecutions.<\/p>\n

“As to the timing of it. I haven’t made a commitment on that, and I don’t want to because… It’s just, we’ve got to set our priorities for the first year or so.<\/p>\n

“But I will double down on the commitment that we are going to do that. We will allow time for a private member’s bill. It will be a free vote.”<\/p>\n

A free vote is when MPs can vote with their conscience or personal belief, as opposed to being told how to by their parties.<\/p>\n

It is common on matters to do with health, religion or military intervention.<\/p>\n

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The debate on assisted dying<\/strong><\/a> is often impassioned, and has come to the fore recently following comments from Dame Esther Rantzen<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The That’s Life! presenter revealed she had joined the Swiss Dignitas clinic after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.<\/p>\n

She said she believed it was “important the law catches up with what the country wants” in making assisted dying legal.<\/p>\n

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More than 200,000 people signed a petition calling for a vote on assisted dying, and MPs debated the matter<\/strong><\/a> at the end of April this year.<\/p>\n

Many shared stories related to losing relatives and loved ones, and how it informed their view on the topic of assisted dying.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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