“As you will have seen, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has announced his resignation. Andy Burnham is now the clear front-runner to become the next Prime Minister. If there is no full Labour leadership contest, he could be in office by mid-July.
This is a very important moment in defeating the revived Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill, which has been brought back by Lauren Edwards MP and is due to have its Second Reading on 11 September.
That is why I am asking you to urgently email your MP today using the new tool we have just launched. It includes important new information MPs need to see, and asks them to vote NO on 11 September.
If Burnham becomes Prime Minister before Parliament returns, he could arrive back in Westminster on 1 September facing an immediate and divisive fight over assisted suicide, just ten days before the vote on 11 September. At the New Statesman commented, ‘...it is hard to see a world in which he would welcome this Labour Party-dividing legislation” - and if it is not defeated on 11 September, we could see this issue totally dominating the beginning of his time in power.’ If MPs hear clearly from their constituents now that the last thing the country needs is another parliamentary session dominated by this dangerous Bill, there is a good chance that more MPs will vote NO on 11 September.
We at Right to Life UK are already hearing from MPs that their inboxes are being flooded by supporters of the assisted suicide Bill. Dignity in Dying is putting pressure on MPs to vote for the Bill, and they will be putting huge pressure on Andy Burnham too.”
Please use the link to
contact your MP Write to MP to vote NO on the new assisted suicide Bill on 11 Sept – Easy tool Many thanks.