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debate them on Friday. This means the bill will fall when the current session of Parliament ends. Before he became prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer had publicly supported the idea of assisted dying
debate is complicated and difficult. The Scottish Parliament, with its one chamber, [decided to reject assisted dying](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33j3nd1kvko). The Isle of Man and Jersey have both backed it – but their bills
Parliament Square in 2025](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9571c3b68a7b31833a6904d839535e1a3e26dfc8/245_114_2987_2390/master/2987.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) The assisted dying debate has drawn demonstrators from opposing views. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images There was a point last summer when it felt highly likely that assisted
debate A proposed law to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales will run out of time on Friday, almost 17 months after MPs first voted in favour of it. The bill has stalled
assisted dying](/news/2025/6/21/uk-parliament-approves-assisted-dying-bill-how-would-it-work) in England and Wales will not become law after efforts by unelected lawmakers to stall its passage through Parliament. Time ran out for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
assisted dying legislation makes his case outside parliament on Friday. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Opponents of the bill said it was flawed and campaign groups said so many Lords amendments were necessary to fix glaring
debates in the Lords and rained down amendments in order to talk out the bill. “It’s absolutely shameless what a tiny group, less than 1% of the unelected, the upper house, has done