Keir Starmer has said he is "personally committed" to changing the law on assisted dying if Labour win the next election. Speaking on the phone with broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen, who recently revealed she had signed up to Dignitas in Switzerland, Sir Keir said he was "personally in favour of changing the law". Sir Keir also told Dame Esther on the call, recorded by ITV, that Labour "will make the commitment". "I think we need to make time...
Read More: ‘The law is a mess’: Dame Esther Rantzen issues fresh call for free vote on assisted dyingRead More: Keir Starmer says current assisted dying laws 'don't really work' as he calls to change the rulesIt also comes weeks after Sir Keir told LBC's Nick Ferrari that he would support a change in the law if the conditions were right. "I am an advocate to change the law," he told Nick in January. "Obviously that change has to be very carefully crafted.
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