Several MPs preparing to suggest amendments on key concerns including coercion and role of medicsUp to 30 MPs who backed assisted dying could withdraw support at the next parliamentary vote, MPs have said, as several prepare to...
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Read MoreThe health secretary says the emergency ban on the sale and supply of puberty blockers to under-18s will be made indefiniteThere will be two government statements in the Commons after PMQs.At 12.30pm Yvette Cooper, the home...
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Read MoreNewspapers across the board cover the historic vote prominently, but with some more enthused about the outcome than othersFront pages in the UK on Saturday were dominated by the step taken by MPs toward legalising assisted dying...
Read MoreBill will now proceed to committee for scrutiny, whose membership will be chosen by its proposer Kim LeadbeaterMPs have voted by 330 to 275 to approve the assisted dying bill at a second reading. But the bill is not yet law and...
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