Assisted Dying: majority back option ahead of parliament vote

The Justice Secretary has expressed deep concern about the assisted dying bill – which goes before Parliament on Friday. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

MPs can vote according to their conscience on whether to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults with less than 6 months to live, rather than have to vote along party lines.

Shabana Mahmood said the state should never offer death as a service, but a new poll has found that two thirds of people said they would support assisted dying.

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