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Assisted dying

After a speech on social care at a Jewish care home in Golders Green, the Prime Minister told reporters:

”I take the view that that debate [assisted dying] – and I don’t say that there shouldn’t be a debate at some point about those issues – personally, I think there’s something that needs to happen first. That is the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care. I think it is very challenging to introduce that wider debate in a context of people not receiving that care and having the peace of mind about that care. That’s the way I kind of see this, and that’s the position that I will stick to.”

In the last session of Parliament, MPs had voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill with majorities of 55 and then 23, but the Lords heavily criticised the bill and tabled more than 1,000 amendments, with the result that it ran out of time and was lost. Continue reading →