A piece on the BBC. A useful guide to how every MP voted (or didn’t vote) is here. Starmer voted for the Bill, Badenoch (C) against it, Ed Davey (LD) abstained. For Reform UK, Richard Tice and Sarah Pochin voted for it, while Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and James McMurdock voted against.

The Bill will face a lot of scrutiny and challenging in the House of Lords, in part because it’s a private member’s bill and wasn’t in the Labour party manifesto at the last general election. That said, the same was true in 1967 – Liberal Party MP David Steel proposed a private member’s bill on abortion. There had been no mention of an intention to pass a Bill on abortion in the Labour party’s 1966 general election manifesto (Harold Wilson was the party leader).

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