Dame Esther Rantzen has said she feels "great relief" after MPs backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. She has described the historic vote, which will pave the way for a change in law,

The majority of Conservative MPs voted against (an 80/20 split, so a score of 0.60), along with most of the independents who voted, and the majority of the MPs from Northern Ireland (the DUP’s 1.0 score mirroring the Greens). And the SNP abstained en bloc.

Despite the political distractions and the circus which can accompany them, the duty of an MP is fundamentally grave in nature. To our elected politicians, we hand the ability to make decisions on matters of life and death,