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Labour planned in opposition how to introduce assisted dying via private member’s bill

todayDecember 3, 2025

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Leaked document raises questions over amount of government control behind MP Kim Leadbeater’s bill

Labour planned while in opposition how to introduce assisted dying via a private member’s bill, suggesting that would still allow “heavy influence” for the government in the process, a leaked document has revealed.

The document, seen by the Guardian, proposed a change strikingly similar to the private member’s bill eventually put forward by the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater – to limit the change in the law to those who are “mentally competent, terminally ill and have a prognosis of less than six months left to live”.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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