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What is the background to the MPs’ vote on assisted dying? | Assisted dying
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is introducing a private member’s bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. The bill is expected to allow terminally ill adults with a limited prognosis to have the option to end their life.
There would be strict eligibility criteria, including mental competence, assessment by two independent doctors and a likely requirement for drugs to be self-administered.
Leadbeater’s bill will get its second reading, involving an MPs’ vote, on 29 November. If it passes, the bill will be scrutinised by a parliamentary committee, when MPs can table amendments. It will later be voted on by the House of Lords, before returning to the Commons.
What is the current law?
At the moment, assisting a suicide in England and Wales is a crime with a maximum sentence of 14 years. A similar law is in place in Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is no specific crime but helping a person to die could lead to prosecution for culpable homicide.
Why is there a move now to change the law?
Momentum has been building in recent months. Dame Esther Rantzen, the television presenter and campaigner, triggered a national debate last December when she said she may travel to Switzerland for an assisted death after being told her lung cancer was terminal. Within days, leaders of the main political parties at Westminster said they would allow parliamentary time for a bill.
Campaigners for assisted dying say the UK is lagging behind many jurisdictions in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and the time has come for the UK to enact this major social change. Parliaments in Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Man are all considering laws allowing assisted dying.
Is the Westminster parliament expected to back the bill?
There will be a free vote on the issue, meaning MPs will not be told by party whips whether to support the bill or oppose it. The last time parliamentary opinion was tested in a vote was in 2015, when a bill was overwhelmingly rejected by 330 votes to 118.
In the past nine years, hundreds of new MPs have entered parliament, and it is thought that many support a change in the law. Keir Starmer has previously indicated support for assisted dying although he has declined to be drawn on how he will vote on Leadbeater’s bill.
There are both supporters and opponents within the cabinet. Both candidates for the Conservative party leadership have suggested they would vote against change. In the House of Lords, opinion is also divided.
What does the public think?
A survey of 10,000 people by Opinium on behalf of Dignity in Dying earlier this year found that 75% backed the legalisation of assisted dying, with 14% opposed.
A recent poll by Ipsos found that 66% said it should be legal for a doctor to assist a terminally ill person to end his or her life, against 16% who said it should not be legal. Opponents of assisted dying say such polls do not reflect people’s considered opinions once they are presented with more detailed information.
What are the main arguments in favour of assisted dying?
Advocates say people facing a death involving extreme pain and suffering should be allowed to have control over the end of their life, and be able to die with dignity, surrounded by loved ones at a time of their choosing.
Many campaigners say they have witnessed appalling suffering and loved ones begging to be released from pain. They argue assisted dying is about autonomy and shortening a process that is already under way. Assisted dying is seen by many supporters as a new frontier in progressive social change and self-determination.
What are the main arguments against?
Opponents argue that legalising assisted dying inevitably leads to a loosening of criteria, pointing out that in some jurisdictions the option has been extended to people with mental health issues or conditions that aren’t necessarily terminal – the so-called slippery slope.
Legalising assisted dying could put pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives for fear of being a financial, emotional or care burden, with disabled, elderly, sick or depressed people especially at risk. First-class palliative care should be available and properly resourced instead. The state should not be sanctioning suicide, opponents say.
What is happening elsewhere?
The Isle of Man may become the first place in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill residents. Jersey, which also has its own parliament, is expected to pass a similar law. Legislation on assisted dying has been proposed in the Scottish parliament.
More than 30 jurisdictions across the world have some form of assisted dying. They include 11 states in the US, some states in Australia plus Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and Switzerland.
Unusually, Switzerland allows people from other countries to have an assisted death. Dignitas, the Zurich-based organisation, told British MPs last year that it had helped 540 Britons to die. A Dignitas-assisted death costs about £10,000, and those accompanying a loved one face the risk of investigation and prosecution when they return from Switzerland.
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How a LinkedIn post sparked a transatlantic row
LinkedIn: the social network for CVs, apparently motivational corporate messages and – as of late last night – transatlantic diplomatic spats.
When Sofia Patel, the Labour Party’s head of operations, posted on the site last week that she was coordinating nearly 100 current and former party officials to campaign in battleground states in the final weeks of the US presidential election, she surely could not have imagined that she would provoke a legal complaint filed in Florida.
In a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Trump presidential campaign’s deputy general counsel declared: “When representatives of the British government previously sought to go door-to-door in America, it did not end well for them.”
Last week, he noted, was the 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown – a military victory which ensured the United States’ enduring independence from “Great Britian” [sic].
Bombastic as that may sound, it’s hardly of trivial interest that a Labour Party that has conspicuously sought to improve its ties to Trump and his team is now being formally accused of “blatant foreign interference” on behalf of his opponent, Kamala Harris.
So what’s behind all this?
Under the FEC rules, foreign volunteers on US campaigns are permissible, as long as they are just that – volunteers – and are not compensated for their work.
That is exactly what Labour says these operatives were: volunteers. While Patel’s LinkedIn post told those interested in campaigning that “we will sort your housing”, it is being argued that this was imprecise language.
Sir Keir Starmer told reporters last night that Labour officials going to the US to campaign are “doing it as volunteers, they’re staying I think with other volunteers over there”.
‘Private citizens’
There is a question over what exactly Patel meant by saying she had “10 spots available” for people willing to campaign in North Carolina.
Did that entail travel costs to get there being covered? Even if it did, Labour are adamant that they did not pay.
But arguably the more pertinent charge, diplomatically at least, is the allegation that the Labour Party as an institution is formally coming to the aid of the Democrats.
This is being denied too. Labour sources say that Ms Patel was, in her spare time, organising party officials to go out to the US in their spare time.
That was the argument from Steve Reed, the environment secretary, this morning: “It’s up to private citizens how they use their time and their money”.
And of course, it’s not surprising that those on the left of politics here would want the Democratic candidate to win the US election, just as at least one recent former Conservative special adviser is currently in a swing state campaigning for Trump.
British obsession
There’s another element to this, too. The British political world is utterly obsessed with American politics, even if it is an almost totally unrequited passion.
Every four years, British politicos stream across the Atlantic for a taste of campaigning on a far bigger canvas.
There are numerous examples. Earlier this summer Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, was at the Republican convention just days after his election as an MP, as was Liz Truss, the former prime minister, just days after she lost her seat.
Penny Mordaunt, the former Conservative cabinet minister, worked for George W Bush before she became an MP. Liam Fox, another ex-Conservative MP, has had ties with senior figures in the Republicans for a number of years.
Not that the parties on either side of the Atlantic always match up neatly.
In January 2020, I was shadowing a small group of canvassers for Joe Biden in the New Hampshire presidential primary, when I realised that one of them was Sir Simon Burns, the former Conservative MP for Chelmsford.
In recent weeks Sir Robert Buckland, who lost his seat as a Conservative at the general election, has been in the US campaigning for Harris.
Awkward spot
Be all that as it may, it’s undeniable that this is a seriously awkward spot for the Labour government to find itself in, exactly two weeks before Starmer could well be placing a phone call congratulating President-Elect Trump.
In opposition and in government, Labour officials have invested significant energy in trying to forge links to Trump and his allies.
David Lammy, the foreign secretary, spent time with JD Vance, the senator from Ohio who then became Trump’s candidate for vice-president.
Diplomats were delighted with how quickly Starmer managed to speak on the phone to Trump after the failed assassination attempt on him in July, and just a few weeks ago they met for the first time over dinner at Trump Tower in New York.
Senior Labour figures believe that this legal wrangle is not really a rebuke of that approach, but instead just straightforward politicking from the Trump campaign, who are eager to use the Labour volunteers as a way to bash the Harris campaign in the crucial final stretch.
They need to be right.
Because if they are wrong, then this may not be a mere passing awkwardness, but a dispute threatening the most important diplomatic relationship any British prime minister has.
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting will vote against legalising assisted dying
Health Secretary Wes Streeting will vote against changing the law on assisted dying, the BBC has confirmed.
Backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has put forward a bill proposing that terminally ill adults nearing the end of their lives get the right to choose to shorten their deaths if they wish.
But in a meeting of Labour MPs on Monday, Streeting said he did not believe the palliative care system was good enough to support assisted dying.
The prime minister has made clear the government will remain neutral on the issue and MPs will be given a free vote.
A similar move was rejected by MPs in 2015, but recent polling has consistently suggested a majority of the public supports a change in the law.
Cabinet ministers have been instructed not to campaign in public on either side of the issue, ahead of a vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on 29 November.
Dozens of Labour MPs are thought to be still undecided about the plans and Streeting’s intervention, first reported by The Times, could be especially influential because of his position as the health secretary.
It is also notable because Streeting voted for the legalisation of assisted dying the last time the Commons voted, in 2015 – meaning he has changed his mind.
Last month, he told the Financial Times he was “struggling” with the issue, saying he could “buy into the principle” of assisted dying but was “not sure as a country we have the right end-of-life care available to enable a real choice on assisted dying”.
Streeting is the second cabinet minister in two days to state their intention to vote against changing the law, after Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood told The Times of her “unshakeable belief in the sanctity and the value of human life” on Tuesday.
Leadbeater has said patients with serious illnesses are suffering “horrible painful deaths” and that “people deserve a choice”.
Her bill would restrict assisted dying to terminally ill patients, and would require two doctors and a judge to sign it off. But opponents say there are still serious concerns about safeguards.
Earlier this month, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson told the BBC she was worried about the impact on vulnerable and disabled people, as well as the possibility of coercive control and the ability of doctors to predict how long a patient has left to live.
Assisted dying is generally used to describe a situation where someone who is terminally ill seeks medical help to obtain lethal drugs which they administer themselves.
Assisted suicide – intentionally helping another person to end their life – is currently banned in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
The bill would cover England and Wales, where – like Northern Ireland – assisting someone to ending their life is against the law.
In Scotland – where it is not a specific criminal offence but can leave a person open to a murder charge – a bill is currently being considered that, if passed, would give terminally ill adults the right to request help to end their life.
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UK and Germany to sign landmark ‘defence’ treaty
Britain and Germany will sign what the UK government is calling a “landmark defence agreement” aimed at boosting security, investment and jobs.
Under the agreement, German defence company Rheinmetall will open a new factory in the UK to manufacture barrels for artillery guns – supporting 400 jobs.
Both countries will work together to develop drones and a new long-range missile.
German maritime surveillance aircraft will also periodically fly patrols of the North Atlantic from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland.
Labour promised to build closer military ties with Germany while in opposition and this is part of a wider push by this government to reset relations with key European allies post Brexit.
The German Ambassador to the UK, Miguel Berger, said the European Commission will have a very strong focus on defence in the next five years, and there is space for the UK to be involved.
“Obviously the question is – what can the role of the British defence industry and of the capacities of the United Kingdom be in this joint endeavour?” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
The UK already has a defence pact with France – the Lancaster House Treaty signed in 2010 by David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy – but this is the first with Germany.
Germany and the UK are the two largest defence spenders in Europe and the biggest European military donors to Ukraine.
Defence Secretary John Healey said it was a “milestone moment”, bringing the two countries’ militaries and defence industries closer.
In reality the two nations already co-operate as members of the Nato alliance.
In a joint venture, they are also building new tanks and armoured vehicles for the British Army, Germany’s Rheinmetall and the UK’s BAE Systems-formed RBSL to manufacture the Boxer armoured fighting vehicle and the latest Challenger 3 tank in Telford, Shropshire.
Under the new Trinity House Agreement, Rheinmetall will build a factory in the UK to produce barrels for artillery guns – something the UK stopped doing more than a decade ago.
The site for the factory has not yet been announced, but the Ministry of Defence (MOD) says it will support more than 400 jobs and use British steel produced by Sheffield Forgemasters.
The steelmaker was recently acquired by the UK Government. The first artillery gun barrels are expected to roll off the production line in 2027.
The Trinity House Agreement also includes a commitment to develop a new long-range missile, which the MOD says will be more precise and can be fired further than any current systems – the UK’s Storm Shadow and Germany’s Taurus. Unlike the UK, Germany has refused to supply Ukraine with its Taurus cruise missile.
The UK and Germany will further co-operate on developing drones that might be able to fly alongside Typhoon jets operated by both countries.
German P8 maritime surveillance aircraft will periodically operate out of RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland to help patrol the North Atlantic. Other Nato allies have been doing the same for a number of years.
There is also a promise to bolster the defence of Nato’s eastern flank; both the UK and Germany have already sent hundreds of troops to the Baltic states as part of Nato’s enhanced defence plans following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said the agreement would strengthen Europe and Nato.
“We must not take security in Europe for granted,” he said, adding the projects being undertaken would be open to other partners.
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Government to revive police firearms review
The government will revive a review into how police officers who take fatal shots in the line of duty are held to account following the shooting of Chris Kaba, the prime minister said.
The probe was initially launched by the previous government, but will now be completed by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Sir Keir Starmer said it was important that the public have confidence in the police and that police have confidence in the government.
It comes days after police officer Martyn Blake was cleared of the murder of Mr Kaba.
“We are going to pick [the probe] up and complete that accountability review because it is important that the public have confidence in the police including of course the armed police,” Sir Keir said.
“It’s also important that the police know that we have confidence in them doing a very difficult job, so we will pick that up.”
He added that more details would be available later on Wednesday when Ms Cooper makes a statement in the House of Commons.
Under the current law, every armed police officer is personally responsible for their actions. Officers cannot use more force than is necessary to neutralise a threat.
A superior officer cannot tell a police officer to pull the trigger – nor can there be a pre-emptive tactical decision to shoot a suspect whatever the circumstances.
On Monday, police officer Mr Blake was cleared of murdering Chris Kaba, who he shot in the head during a police vehicle stop in south London two years ago.
It has since been revealed that Mr Kaba had shot a man in a nightclub days before his own death.
Reacting to the verdict Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said no police officer was above the law but said the force had been clear “the system holding police to account is broken”.
“I worry about the lack of support officers face for doing their best, but most of all, I worry for the public,” he said.
“The more we crush the spirit of good officers, the less they can fight crime – that risks London becoming less safe.”
Abimbola Johnson, a barrister on a scrutiny board set up by the National Police Chiefs Council in the summer to boost confidence among minority ethnic people, warned against using the Kaba case to push for legislative change.
“It is already extremely rare for us to see police officers being prosecuted under the criminal justice system for action they have conducted whilst in the line of duty,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
She added: “This is not a typical case, therefore, using this as a reason to push for legislative change, it doesn’t make sense, because this isn’t normally what would happen throughout the process.”
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Labour volunteers in US helping Harris ‘in spare time’
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has sought to play down the significance of alleged interference by the Labour Party in the American presidential election.
The Trump Campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington seeking an immediate investigation – after the Head of Operations for the Labour Party, Sofia Patel, posted on social media that she had “ten spots available” for anyone willing to travel to North Carolina to campaign for Kamala Harris, adding “we will sort your housing”.
She said she had around 100 current and former party staff heading to America before polling day.
The post, on LinkedIn, has since been deleted.
Foreign nationals are permitted to serve as volunteers on campaigns in the US as long as they are not compensated, according to Federal Election Commission rules.
The complaint from the Trump Campaign is both pointed and theatrical.
“When representatives of the British government previously sought to go door-to-door in America, it did not end well for them,” it read.
That is a matter-of-fact reference to US independence around 250 years ago.
On matters more contemporary it requests “an immediate investigation” into what it calls “blatant foreign interference”.
Speaking to reporters while flying to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa in the south Pacific, the prime minister said: “The Labour Party has volunteers, [they] have gone over pretty much every election.
“They’re doing it in their spare time. They’re doing it as volunteers. They’re staying I think with other volunteers over there.”
The Trump Campaign letter to the Federal Election Commission also says: “Morgan McSweeney, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, director of communications, attended the (Democratic) convention in Chicago and met with Ms Harris’ campaign team.
“Deborah Mattinson, Sir Keir’s director of strategy, also went to Washington in September to brief Ms Harris’ presidential campaign on Labour’s election-winning approach.”
Ms Mattinson no longer works for the Labour Party.
Party sources say Mr Doyle and Mr McSweeney went to the Democratic Convention in their own time, and that the Democratic Party didn’t pay their travel and accommodation costs.
It isn’t clear who did.
Asked if the row risked jeopardising his relationship with Donald Trump, the prime minister said “no” – pointing to the dinner the two men had together at Trump Tower in New York last month.
“We established a good relationship. We’re grateful for him for making the time… for that dinner,” Sir Keir said.
“We had a good, constructive discussion and, of course as prime minister of the United Kingdom I will work with whoever the American people return as their President in their elections, which are very close now.”
Sir Keir has never met the Vice-President Harris, Trump’s Democratic rival.
But he has met President Biden several times since becoming prime minister in July.
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Reeves confirms Budget spending deals struck with all departments
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she has now reached spending settlements with all government departments ahead of her much-anticipated Budget on 30 October.
It comes after reports of Treasury rows with multiple departments over the expected scale of spending cuts.
Reeves told BBC Radio 5’s Matt Chorley she had struck deals with all her cabinet colleagues – and in line with tradition, popped all balloons put up in the Treasury to represent each department’s funding agreement.
While sympathising with “the mess” her colleagues had inherited, Reeves insisted departments needed to find savings to balance the budget.
In recent Budgets, chancellors have adopted the tradition of hanging balloons in the office of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to represent spending deals that must be negotiated with government departments.
As settlements are reached, the balloons are popped.
In the exclusive interview, Reeves said: “There are no balloons left in the Chief Secretary’s office – the balloons have been burst.”
In the run-up to the Budget there have been growing reports of unease in the Cabinet over the spending cuts needed to meet the Treasury’s target of finding £40bn of savings.
Sky News reported that the Treasury missed its initial 16 October deadline to finalise all major Budget measures for submission to spending watchdog the Office of Budget Responsibility ahead of the Budget.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner who runs the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, as well as Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Transport Secretary Louise Haigh have all been reported as writing to Sir Keir Starmer to complain about the scale of cuts their departments were facing.
Haigh has since told the BBC she did not write a letter, but had been having Budget negotiations with the Treasury “in the normal way”.
Addressing reports colleagues had gone over her head to take their concerns about budget cuts directly to the prime minister, Reeves said, “I wouldn’t believe everything you read” in the media.
But she went on to say it was “perfectly reasonable that Cabinet colleagues set out their case – both to me as chancellor and to the prime minister, about the scale of the challenges that they find in their departments”.
“I’m very sympathetic towards the mess that my colleagues have inherited”, Reeves said.
“But any additional money, in the end, it has to be paid for either by taking money from other departments or raising taxes.”
Taxes on ‘working people’
The Labour manifesto promised not to raise income tax rates, national insurance or VAT to protect “working people”.
Labour also campaigned on a pledge not to “return to austerity” – the programme of deep spending cuts and tax hikes aimed at reducing the UK’s budget deficit pursued by the 2010 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
“All of those things mean that we do need to find additional money,” Reeves said.
Reeves admitted this meant she was considering tweaks to “other taxes to ensure the sums add up”.
“We were clear during the election campaign, you can’t undo 14 years of damage in one Budget or in just a few months,” she said.
“It is going to take time to rebuild our public services to ensure that working people are better off and to fix the foundations of our economy and our society as well.”
As she looks to balance the first Labour Budget in 14 years, Reeves admitted she speaks to several major political figures.
“I speak to Gordon regularly – I also speak to Tony Blair regularly,” she said.
She also maintains a “good relationship” with her predecessor Jeremy Hunt, regularly messaging the Conservative shadow chancellor.
“I may not be particularly impressed with the state of the public finances that he left me, but I do recognise that after Kwasi Kwarteng, he had a tough job to do as well,” she said.
The one person she wishes she could “pick up the phone to now” is Alistair Darling, the last Labour chancellor to deliver a Budget – who died last year aged 70.
Lord Darling served in cabinet for 13 years under both Blair and Brown, and was best known as the chancellor who steered the UK through the 2008 financial crisis.
“I hope that he would be proud of what I’m doing as the next Labour chancellor after him,” she said.
Reeves spoke about her pride at being the first female chancellor in the role’s 800-year history.
Becoming chancellor was “beyond what a girl like me, from the ordinary background that I came from, could have ever dreamed of,” Reeves said.
Now in her “dream job”, Reeves said, “one of the wonderful things in the first few months of doing this job is to meet female finance ministers from around the world” – such as US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian finance minister.
“I take a lot of inspiration from those amazing women and so many others,” Reeves said.
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