They believe that, subject to legal safeguards, terminally-ill adult patients should have the option of an assisted death in their final stages of life.
The proposed bill was debated in 2014 but ran out of time in the run up to the 2015 general election.
[3] A version of the bill tabled by Rob Marris was eventually voted on and defeated in the House of Commons in September 2015.
[5] It was formerly chaired by Independent MP Nick Boles, who stood down at the 2019 General Election.
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