Mel Stride becomes fourth Tory MP to announce leadership bid – UK politics live

Former work and pensions secretary joins James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick in announcing he will stand

Keir Starmer is under pressure to fulfil a promise to allow a parliamentary vote on legalising assisted dying as a bill is to be introduced into the House of Lords on Friday.

Lord Falconer, who was lord chancellor in Tony Blair’s government, will propose a private member’s bill to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults after coming second in a ballot of peers last week.

How can you tolerate a situation where one in five of your health and care providers has not received a rating? How can you tolerate ratings being reached on the basis of only a partial inspection of the organisation, melded in with inspection reports dating back over a number of years?”