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Disabled would be put in danger by legalisation of assisted dying, DPAC activist warns
Keir Starmer gives a keynote speech marking the four-year anniversary of the 2019 election, at Silverstone Technology Park, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, December 12, 2023
DISABLED people would be put in danger by any legalisation of assisted dying, a leading campaigner said today after Sir Keir Starmer indicated that Labour would take up the issue in Parliament.
Sir Keir spoke out after Dame Esther Rantzen called for a new Commons vote on assisted dying, revealing she has registered with Switzerland’s death clinic Dignitas since she has stage four lung cancer.
He said he believed there were “ grounds for changing the law,” but it would need to be handled carefully and made subject to a free vote by MPs.
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