Assisted Dying: how MPs voted and what it tells us about ‘cross-party consensus’

By Philip Cowley, Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London

Whenever there is a high-profile free vote – like that over assisted dying – you will see claims that it cuts across party lines: that the issues involved are “non-party”, “cross-party”, or “not issues of party politics”. This is all partly true, although it also reflects an anti-party sentiment that has long existed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, writer Sidney Low noted that the easiest way to get a round of applause at a public meeting was…

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