Assisted dying bill vote tracker: Check how your MP voted in Parliament

Assisted dying could become legal in England and Wales following a historic vote that saw proposed legislation pass its first stage in Parliament. A majority of MPs, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, backed a Bill that would permit terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to end their lives.

The Commons witnessed emotional scenes as politicians passionately argued both for and against what has been dubbed a "major social reform". Currently, encouraging or assisting suicide is illegal in England and Wales, carrying a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.

MPs voted 330 to 275, a majority of 55, to approve Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at its second reading.

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Labour MP Ms Leadbeater insisted her Bill has strict safeguards against coercion and said a new law would give society “a much better approach towards end of life”.

She insisted the approach was not that assisted dying would be a substitute for palliative care, but that when it cannot meet the needs of a dying person “the choice of an assisted death should be one component of a holistic approach to end-of-life care”.

The Bill will next go to committee stage where MPs can table amendments, and on Friday a motion was approved to allow the committee considering the Bill to have the power to send for people, papers and records as part of its sessions.

The Bill will face further scrutiny and votes in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, meaning any change in the law would not be agreed until next year at the earliest.

Ms Leadbeater has said it would likely be a further two years from then for an assisted dying service to be in place.