Mary Kenny: Irish lawmakers will watch carefully as doubts creep in on the UK’s assisted dying bill

People change their minds about politics, ideas and values. And it has been revealing to observe a gradual change of mind occur in British politics over the question of assisted dying. Six months ago, I’d have predicted that Westminster would easily pass an assisted dying law.

In fact, I wrote in this newspaper last May that the veteran TV celebrity Esther Rantzen was such a powerful campaigner for voluntary euthanasia that politicians would defer to her will. And after Keir Starmer became prime minister in July, he indeed promised Rantzen that there would be a parliamentary vote under his watch..