Sir Keir Starmer voted in favour of legalising assisted dying on Friday as the House of Commons backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill by 330 votes to 275.
A number of other senior ministers backed the Bill, including Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, and Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary.
However, the Cabinet was split, with Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, and Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, all voting against.
If the Bill becomes law, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, and Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of assisted dying – which will require a patient’s case to be approved by two doctors and a judge.
But they both voted against it when it came before the Commons for its first reading.
Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, Nigel Farage and Sir Ed Davey did the same.
Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, voted against the Bill along with 92 other Tory MPs.
Rishi Sunak, the former prime minister, Jeremy Hunt, the ex-chancellor, and Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, were among the 23 Tory MPs who voted in favour.
Others who did the same were Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s leader in the Commons, and Reform UK MPs Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Rupert Lowe.
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