MPs to vote again on assisted dying as bill returns to parliament – UK politics live

Labour MP Lauren Edwards, the bill’s sponsor, is the first to speak.

She has criticised the House of Lords for what she said was the obstruction of the assisted dying bill in the previous parliamentary session.

“Many members would no doubt prefer to be working in their constituencies today. They are not, because a small number of peers in the other place chose to prevent any votes taking place on the substance of that bill,” she said.

“That decision means that one of the most significant national conversations that we have been having as legislators was brought to an abrupt halt. And who suffers detriment as a result? Clearly, the terminally ill and their families, who had a fair assumption that the will of the people they elected to represent them in this chamber would be respected.”