DISABLED people would be put in danger by any legalisation of assisted dying, a leading campaigner said today after Sir Keir Starmer indicated that Labour would take up the issue in Parliament.

Sir Keir spoke out after Dame Esther Rantzen called for a new Commons vote on assisted dying, revealing she has registered with Switzerland’s death clinic Dignitas since she has stage four lung cancer.

He said he believed there were “ grounds for changing the law,” but it would need to be handled carefully and made subject to a free vote by MPs.