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
MPs and peers who led the assisted dying bill have promised to bring it back to parliament after it ran out of time in the House of Lords.
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who tabled the private member’s bill, said the plan would be to table an identical bill in the next parliamentary session, which would prevent peers blocking it again, as the Lords cannot stop the same bill twice.
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