‘We won’t give up on assisted dying until Parliament is willing to make change’

Lauren Nicklinson, right, and as a child with her dad Tony who was left paralysed after a stroke (Picture: Lauren Nicklinson)

In June 2025, there were scenes of jubilation outside the Houses of Parliament from supporters of assisted dying.

MPs had just voted to back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on third reading, meaning it had officially passed the Commons – ensuring the measure was closer to legalisation than any other point in British history.

Dame Esther Rantzen, perhaps the UK’s most prominent campaigner for assisted dying, said she was ‘so relieved’, adding: ‘I am astonished I have lived to see the moment.’

But ten months on, the mood is very different.

Peers in the House of Lords tabled an unprecedented number of amendments to the bill, all but ensuring they wou...