How did party leaders and ministers vote on assisted dying?

Plans that could legalise assisted dying cleared their archetypal hurdle successful Parliament connected Friday.

A bulk of MPs – including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and erstwhile PM Rishi Sunak – backed the proposals which would let terminally sick adults with a beingness expectancy of little than six months to extremity their lives.

MPs voted by 330 to 275 to backmost the proposals, a bulk of 55.

Here is however immoderate of the notable names successful Parliament voted connected Friday:

Fifteen members of the Cabinet, voted for the Bill – including the PM. The colleagues alongside him successful the aye lobby included Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and caller Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander.

Meanwhile 8 voted against, including Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Women and Equalities curate Anneliese Dodds

There was nary ballot recorded for the Scottish Secretary Ian Murray.

Labour curate Emma Hardy voted successful some the aye and nary lobbies, and confirmed successful a connection that she had registered a ceremonial abstention.

The MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice said: “I judge that everyone deserves dignity successful dying, and that each idiosyncratic has the close to a bully death. Unfortunately, the instrumentality arsenic it stands contiguous is inconsistent.”

Mr Lammy was among the Cabinet figures who decided to not backmost the legislation. In a missive to his constituents posted connected societal media aft the vote, helium said that helium “worried” that if the plans go instrumentality “large numbers of radical from each backgrounds” volition consciousness unit successful their last days.

He said: “When a soul’s infinitesimal of departure becomes an option, thing to beryllium scheduled, truthful does the fiscal disbursal of keeping oneself connected earth.”

Mr Sunak was among the 23 Conservative MPs who backed the bill, and has said helium believes it volition “reduce suffering”.

Writing for the Darlington and Stockton Times – his constituency’s section insubstantial – Mr Sunak said that determination “were radical I americium arrogant to telephone friends and whom I profoundly respect successful some lobbies”.

He wrote: “I judge that, wherever possible, we should forestall suffering. I cognize from speaking and listening to galore of you, that excessively galore radical person to spell done painful, traumatic, drawn-out deaths.

“These moving, profoundly idiosyncratic stories person near a profound content connected me. This Bill volition marque these ordeals, which are truthful traumatic for patients and their families, little frequent: it volition trim suffering.”

Most Tory MPs voted against the plans, including caller person Kemi Badenoch, who had said earlier the ballot that portion she believes giving radical a “level of power implicit however they die” is the “right happening to do”, she could not backmost this legislation.

She wrote successful The Times newspaper: “We cannot support agreeing to things, nevertheless good intentioned, without a wide program for however they volition beryllium delivered successful practice, with each the implications afloat considered.”

Commons information shows the database of shadiness ministers who voted for assisted dying: Mel Stride, Chris Philp, Laura Trott, James Cartlidge, and Victoria Atkins.

The database of shadiness ministers who voted against assisted dying: Mrs Badenoch, Richard Fuller, Dame Priti Patel, Alex Burghart, Helen Whately, Andrew Griffith, Claire Coutinho, Robert Jenrick, Edward Argar, Stuart Andrew, Gareth Bacon, Alan Mak, Mims Davies, Andrew Bowie, and Jesse Norman.

Liberal Democrat person Sir Ed Davey was among 11 of his party’s MPs who voted against the legislation, alongside erstwhile enactment person Tim Farron and the party’s acquisition spokesperson Munira Wilson.

Earlier this month, Sir Ed wrote successful the Times that helium feared “if we marque assisted dying a state-sanctioned option, immoderate radical would inevitably consciousness an tremendous intelligence unit to instrumentality it up, adjacent if it’s not what they truly want”.

Reform UK person Nigel Farage voted down the legislation, alongside his enactment workfellow James McMurdock. The different 3 Reform MPs each chose to backmost the plans.

In a station connected societal media aft the vote, Clacton MP Mr Farage said helium voted successful the mode helium did “not retired of a deficiency of compassion, but due to the fact that I fearfulness that the instrumentality volition widen successful scope”.

He added: “If that happens the close to dice whitethorn go the work to die.”