Sir Keir Starmer has promised Dame Esther Rantzen that he will allow a vote on assisted dying in the next parliament if he wins the next election. The Labour leader made the pledge following recent interventions by the broadcaster, who recently revealed she had joined the Dignitas assisted dying clinic in Switzerland.
The 83-year-old, who has stage four lung cancer, is campaigning for people who have physical illnesses, and a life expectancy of six months or less, to have the right to choose when they die. MPs on the Health and Social Care Committee concluded that in countries where assisted suicide is legal, there hadn't been a drop in the quality of palliative care.
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