Assisted dying vote: Leadbeater says bill not a ‘slippery slope’ as Badenoch raises fears over safeguards – live | Politics

Many MPs have been using social media to say how they will vote in the debate today. Here are some of their messages posted this morning.

Shaun Davies, Labour MP for Telford, is voting for.

Saqib Bhatti, Conservative MP for Meriden and Solihull East, is against.

Tonia Antoniazzi, Labour MP for Gower, who spoke in the debate earlier, is for

Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, who is now an independent MP, says he cannot support the bill.

Charlie Maynard, Lib Dem MP for Witney, is for (at least for now).

Lee Anderson, the Reform UK MP for Ashfield, says his constituents are in favour (but he does not say here how he will vote).

Kirsteen Sullivan, Labour MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow, says she cannot back the bill.

Callum Anderson, the Labour MP for Buckingham and Bletchley, says he is in favour.

Ruth Jones, Labour MP for Newport West, is against.

Tulip Siddiq, a Treasury minister, is for.

Nigel Huddleston, the Conservative co-chair, is against.

Rachel Taylor, the Labour MP for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, is for.

David Reed, Conservative MP for Exmouth and Exeter East, is against.

Polly Billington, Labour MP for East Thanet, is against.

Nia Griffith, a Welsh Office minister, is against.

Zubir Ahmed, Labour MP for Glasgow South West, is against.

Steff Aquarone, Lib Dem MP for North Norfolk, is in favour.

Carla Lockhart (DUP) says the safeguards against coercion in the bill are not adequate. The bill will change the way society values life. And it will put vulnerable people at risk. That is why she and her DUP colleagues will be voting against the bill.

Anna Dixon (Lab), another MP who signed the reasoned amendment saying the bill should not get a second reading to allow time for a full policy review, said she did not believe the procedure for private member’s bill was adequate for an issue of this complexity. In line with the precautionary principle, the bill should be blocked until there has been a proper public consultation, she says.

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Marie Tidball (Lab) says today’s decision is the hardest she has had to make during a career in disability law and policy. She says she did not expect to be voting for the bill, but she will be doing so. She says she thinks it is right that people should have the option of assisted dying, but she says she would like to see stronger safeguards introduced as the bill goes through parliament.

Back in the Commons, Tim Farron, the former Lib Dem leader, says is he opposed to the bill. It will create a space for coercion, he says.

He recalls what happened when his mother was told she was terminally ill. A doctor said terminally ill people often suffer from depression. That is why they would be vulnerable to coercion, he says.

He says the government’s own suicide prevention adviser is against this bill.

And he says he is opposing this bill as a liberal. He is a liberal, not a libertarian, he says. He says people should not have a freedom if it encroaches on someone else’s freedom, and giving people the right to assisted dying would stop people from being free from coercion to die, he says.

According to Jessica Elgot’s assisted dying backgrounder yesterday, Heidi Alexander was being lined up as the government minister appointed to sit on the committee dealing with the next stage of the assisted dying bill, if it passes this afternoon. That is because, until yesterday, she was a justice minister. If the bill passes second reading, another minister will have to take up this responsibility.

Nusrat Ghani, the deputy speaker, asks MPs to stick to a five-minute time limit in subsequent speeches.

Back in the Commons Peter Prinsley (Lab) is speaking. Prinsley is a doctor, and he says he is in favour of the bill. He says better palliative care and assisted dying can go together.

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Edward Leigh (Con), father of the house, goes next. He co-wrote an article with Diane Abbott opposing the bill

He says people support this measure because they are terrified of dying in pain. But there is no need for that, he says. He claims there is no limit to how much morphine a patient can take. But he says some doctors will not give patients morphine beyond a certain amount. There should be a royal commission to clear this up, he says.

Meg Hillier (Lab) says she agrees with the arguments made by Diane Abbott. (See 10.53am.) She recalls her daughter being seriously ill with acute pancreatitis as a teenager, and says for some days she did not know if her daughter would live or die. During that time she saw what good pain relief could achieve.

She says palliative care needs to be much better, and that she has been campaigning on this for years. She urges MPs to oppose the bill, saying it would put vulnerable people at risk.

Ben Spencer (Con), one of the cross-party group of MPs who tabled an amendment opposing the bill to allow time for a full debate, confirmed that he would vote against the legislation. He said he was particularly concerned about the risk of people being coerced into assisted dying.

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Layla Moran (Lib Dem), chair of the Commons health committee, says she will be voting for the bill because “I want this conversation to continue”.

To those saying the bill crosses the Rubicon (like Danny Kruger – see 10.44am), she says she respects their views.

And to those MPs with concerns about the bill, she says they should vote for it today so amendments to the bill can be debated later. MPs can vote for the bill today, but vote against it at third reading if they don’t like the final version, she says.

Rachael Maskell (Lab) says MPs should be focusing on improving palliative care. That is what the public wants, she says.

She says she is worried about people feeling coerced into assisted dying.

Disabled people would be particularly vulnerable, she says.

The safeguarding measures in the bill are flawed, she says. She says the bill is wrong and rushed. And there won’t be time to fix it, she says.