Full list: how will the cabinet vote on assisted dying?

There is a week to go until MPs vote on Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying private members’ bill. Cabinet Secretary Simon Case wrote to ministers last month to say that, while they ‘need not resile from previously stated views when directly asked about them, they should exercise discretion and should not take part in the public debate’.

Below is The Spectator’s list of ministers in favour of the change, along with those against and past statements from their cabinet colleagues. They include the 22 full cabinet ministers plus the other four (Campbell, Jones, Hermer and Dodds) who attend weekly meetings:

In favour:

1. Keir Starmer, Prime Minister: ‘I personally do think there are grounds for changing the law.’
2. Ed Miliband, Energy Security Secretary:  ‘I will be voting for the assisted dying Bill. I know there are people who are in the late stages of terminal illnesses, and I think the current situation is rather cruel actually.’
3. Lisa Nandy, Culture Secretary: ‘I want people to have the choice about how they’re treated at the end of their life.’
4. Hilary