History in Parliament: MPs say YES to assisted dying

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🗓️ 29 November 2024

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When the vote in the Commons came back, you could have heard a pin drop. In the end, after hours of often compelling, personal and emotional debate the result was conclusive. 330 MPs voted to pass the assisted dying bill on to the next stage. 275 voted against. But there was no whooping or cheering when the result came through - just a defeating silence as the chamber grapples with what a huge social shift this could now mean to the country.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.2	This is a global player original podcast.
0:12.6	The eyes to the right, 330.
0:15.6	The nose to the left, 275.
0:19.1	The eyes have it, the eyes have it.
0:20.4	And look. There aren't, in fact, F-275. The eyes have it, the eyes have it, and look!
0:23.3	There aren't, in fact, that many truly historic votes in the House of Commons Chamber,
0:29.3	despite what we journalists might like to tell you sometimes. But when one does come along
0:34.2	and when you're in the Chamber, you can feel it. And today's vote on assisted
0:40.2	dying for terminally ill people, doubtless was one of them. You could feel it. And you could tell
0:47.9	by one very simple measure, which you've just heard, which was as the votes were called out,
0:53.8	almost totally exceptionally
0:56.0	for the commons and almost totally exceptionally for a winning side.
1:02.0	The winning side was almost entirely silent.
1:06.0	You could have heard a pin drop.
1:08.0	No cheer, no shouting from the sidelines, not even really a murmur.
1:15.1	All you could feel was the solemnity, the somber nature of the house. Because yes or no,
1:22.6	they all knew that the House of Commons had made its decision and its feeling known, it was in favour,
1:29.3	and that that would be a first in our history.
1:33.3	For the first time, and there is still a long way to go by a majority of 55,
1:37.3	the House of Commons has said that it is in favour of assisted dying.
1:42.3	What does it mean? Where do we go from here? Are we on the verge of the biggest
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