Exclusive: MP leading bill urges MPs to vote to give terminally ill people autonomy over their own bodies

• Key issues in the assisted dying debate

Legalising assisted dying is a “once in a decade” opportunity, the MP leading the bill has said in her final plea to parliament before a knife-edge vote.

Kim Leadbeater urged her colleagues to support the principle of bodily autonomy in her final interview before MPs vote on Friday on a bill that would fundamentally shift the role of the state in matters of life and death.