UK MPs vote to legalise assisted dying bill – what happens next?

The effort to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales has cleared its first hurdle in parliament. After an impassioned debate – MPs voted to pass Kim Leadbeater’s bill by 330 to 275 – a majority of 55.

Among those supporting it – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his predecessor Rishi Sunak.

The bill proposes that assisted dying is available to terminally ill adults with 6 months left to live but that it must be approved by two doctors and have judicial oversight.  Our political editor Gary Gibbon reports.