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Labour leader Keir Starmer ‘commits’ to assisted suicide vote if Prime Minister

March 14, 2024

The leader of the UK’s Labour Party has stated his personal commitment to changing the law on assisted suicide and promised to bring forward a Bill to legalise the practice if he is elected Prime Minister in the forthcoming General Election. Sir Keir Starmer made his pledge in a telephone conversation with Dame Esther Rantzen, a celebrity

Legalising assisted suicide would cross a ‘moral line’ says English Bishop

May 24, 2021

Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury is urging “all those who value the sanctity of human life and desire the best care and support for the sick and dying” to oppose an “assisted dying” Bill that is expected to be introduced into the House of Lords on Wednesday. “The Bill comes at the end of a

To defeat the assisted suicide bill, we must demonstrate the practical side of Christian love

August 10, 2015

There are very good reasons to oppose Rob Marris MP's proposed legislation, but the argument must be deepened

Bishop says assisted suicide Bill would be a ‘law of despair’

July 31, 2015

Bishop Davies urges pilgrims at Lourdes to lobby their MPs before the Bill is debated in September