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Lauren Edwards didn’t expect to be in this position. The Labour MP tasked with hauling the assisted dying bill back through the House of Commons was on a conference call about local government…

Any MP not voting for it on Friday will condemn thousands of us to die in agony. The public is hugely in favour too, so do the right thing, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Elise Sargent from Portsmouth, who has stage 4 cancer, explains why she wants to see MPs vote through the assisted dying bill on Friday

Debate about assisted dying rightly focuses on safeguards. But any proposed law must be compared with what happens now.

Debate about assisted dying rightly focuses on safeguards. But any proposed law must be compared with what happens now.

Grieving husband urges MPs to back assisted dying bill as new report exposes hidden toll of terminal illness suicides

The will of the elected chamber – and a popular, compassionate piece of legislation – must not be frustrated again by a small minority of peers, says Labour MP for Rochester and Strood Lauren Edwards

Catherine Fookes MP argues that all terminally ill people deseve the choice to die with dignity as assisted dying returns to the Commons.