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Failure of assisted dying Bill 'lets down terminally ill'

2026-04-19 510 Dailymotion

The inevitable fall of the assisted dying Bill this week is “upsetting” and lets down terminally ill people, campaigners said while insisting the fight for a change in the law is not over.The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – which proposed allowing adults in England and Wales, with fewer than six months to live, to apply for an assisted death subject to the approval of two doctors and an expert panel – has been blocked in the upper chamber.Labour MP Kim Leadbeater introduced the Bill to Parliament in late 2024 and had celebrated it passing two votes in the Commons.