England’s chief medical officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty has urged MPs to not overly complicate assisted dying laws if they are to introduce it. Giving evidence to a committee of MPs, he said the best safeguards were the simple ones and said there was a risk patients could end up in a “bureaucratic thicket” at
By SAM MERRIMAN, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT and MAILONLINE REPORTER Published: 20:16 EST, 21 January 2025 | Updated: 22:45 EST, 21 January 2025 Kim Leadbeater has been criticised over an eleventh-hour bid to select expert witnesses in secret as members of a House of Commons committee start to scrutinise her assisted dying bill. The Labour MP’s
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Pope Francis appears to have made his views on assisted dying clear in his New Year’s message, calling on the public to ‘respect natural death’. The Pope has previously spoken out against assisted dying but remained silent on the issue in lead-up to the controversial vote in British parliament. Yet, during New Year’s Day Mass in St
A still sitting Texas Congresswoman has been missing votes in Washington because she’s been living in a $4,000-a-month nursing home for the past six months. Kay Granger, 81, who was set to wind up a nearly 30-year career in the House in January, has been missing from her office for the past six months. The
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said she believes the Assisted Dying Bill will not cost the government more money if enacted. Last month, MPs approved the first stages of a bill to allow terminally ill adults to seek help to end their life if they are eligible and have made their decision voluntarily. Health Secretary Wes
MPs today took a critical step in making assisted dying a reality in England. The House of Commons voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which, if enacted into law, will give patients with less than six months to live the right to seek euthanasia from a medical team. While
By LES ROOPANARINE Published: 07:48 EST, 30 November 2024 | Updated: 07:48 EST, 30 November 2024 Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage are unlikely political bedfellows, a pair for whom a variation on a famous line from Kipling might seem most apt: left is left and right is right, and never the twain shall meet. Yet
EPA On Friday, after weeks of fierce and passionate debate, MPs began their formal scrutiny of the bill that would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life. It was a day of tears, hope, relief and fear. This is the story of how it