Esther Rantzen

Mama established a network of local groups offering friendship and support for new mothers

A Worcestershire MP has recalled how a political rivalry with Dame Esther Rantzen turned into a lasting friendship, following her death at the age of 86

Esther Rantzen gives health update on terminal cancer as she issues assisted dying plea

Esther Rantzen gives health update on terminal cancer as she issues assisted dying plea

Labour MP backs Assisted Dying bill in emotional commons speech

Andy Burnham puts assisted dying bill on hold until care is ‘fixed’

Rebecca Wilcox told of her family’s joy — shared by campaigners across the country — after Labour MP Lauren Edwards announced she will bring the bill back to Parliament

Dalton, 53, has not made an intervention before on the bill because she was serving as a government minister

Dame Esther's daughter Rebecca spoke out after the bill ran out of time

The protest, organised by campaign group Dignity in Dying, came as the number of UK residents who had an assisted death at Dignitas rose to its second-highest level in two decades, with 43 people travelling to Switzerland in 2025, up from 37 the previous year, and second only to 47 people in 2016, figures show

The controversial bill, which was brought to Parliament by Kim Leadbeater MP in October 2024, is currently stuck with the peers and rapidly approaching its approval deadline after they tabled more than 1,000 amendments

The child killer’s father, John, 80, visited a police station half a mile from his daughter's Chester home in March 2017 — two months before the police inquiry into the spike in infant deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital was launched

Labour MP backs Assisted Dying bill in emotional commons speech

Dame Esther has stage four lung cancer and has become a key assisted dying campaigner