Burnham to abstain on assisted dying bill, diverging from Starmer

The BBC reported that Prime Minister Andy Burnham told Labour MPs he will not vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which returns to the Commons — the lower house of Parliament — in two weeks. His predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer, backed the earlier version. Burnham stressed it was "a genuinely free vote" and that the government would stay neutral.