Judges’ role in assisted dying bill criticised as ‘rubber stamping’

Former members of judiciary question whether their role would be a proper safeguard

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

Assisted dying bill: What is in proposed law?

The proposed law would allow some terminally ill adults to end their own lives. But there are requirements.

Assisted dying bill about right to choose, says minister

Labour’s cabinet remains divided on how to vote on Friday’s bill to legalise assisted dying.

Donald Trump’s rubber-stamp government takes shape

The president-elect has picked a devoted coterie to concentrate power around one person: himself

Business - Financial Times - November 15

Ed Davey 'minded' to vote against assisted dying bill

Sir Ed fears elderly and disabled people might feel pressured to end their lives if they felt like a "burden”.

MPs who are also medics urge colleagues to support assisted dying bill

Exclusive: Cross-party group’s letter comes after health secretary said he doubted NHS could enact the change. A cross-party group of MPs who are practising medics and former NHS staff have written ...

World - The Guardian - November 1

Assisted dying could stop harrowing deaths, says MP behind bill

Adults expected to die within six months would be eligible under the proposals for England and Wales.

UK assisted dying bill offers ‘strictest safeguards’ say supporters

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater will publish proposed legislation on Tuesday

Business - Financial Times - November 11

UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’

Shabana Mahmood has written to her constituents saying she is ‘profoundly concerned’ about Friday’s Commons vote. MPs will be placing the country on a “slippery slope towards death on demand” if ...

World - The Guardian - 3 days ago

Assisted dying bill splits UK cabinet ahead of vote

Poll finds 65% of British public supports change in law to allow voluntary euthanasia for terminally ill

Business - Financial Times - 3 days ago

Kinnock to lead UK assisted dying strategy if bill passes

Law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives is opposed by health minister’s boss Wes Streeting

World - Financial Times - 2 days ago

Focus on families affected by harrowing deaths, says MP behind assisted dying bill

Kim Leadbeater says the vote on her assisted dying bill on Friday is likely to be "very close".

Congress won’t be ‘a rubber stamp’ for Trump, says GOP Congressman

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) joins Meet the Press NOW to talk about Matt Gaetz’s decision to withdraw as the pick to be attorney general and how Congress will serve as a check on the incoming Trump ...

Politics - NBC News - 4 days ago

‘I was denied being with her in her last moments’: campaigners on assisted dying bill

As bill to allow terminally ill people in England and Wales to end their own lives enters parliament, supporters of the law change speak out. UK politics live – latest updates Two months after ...

World - The Guardian - November 12

Proposed assisted dying bill for England and Wales rekindles debate over choice and ethics

Details about a proposed law to legalize assisted dying in England and Wales have been published, rekindling debate on the controversial topic ahead of a vote in Parliament later this month

Tech - ABC News - November 12

Proposed assisted dying bill for England and Wales rekindles debate over choice and ethics

Details about a proposed law to legalize assisted dying in England and Wales have been published, rekindling debate on the controversial topic ahead of a vote in Parliament later this month

Health - ABC News - November 12

Badenoch suggests final Tory migration policy would be more radical than leaving European convention on human rights – UK politics live

Conservative leader says there needs to be a ‘plan not just a promise’ beyond leaving the ECHR. William Hague has achieved a rare Tory election victory; he has won the contest to be Oxford ...

World - The Guardian - 37 minutes ago

EU lawmakers seal a deal to rubber-stamp one of the bloc's most right-leaning executives

European Union lawmakers have rubber-stamped a new team of policy commissioners for the next five years to head one of the bloc's most rightward-leaning executive branches ever

World - ABC News - 6 days ago

UK will allay Trump concerns over Chagos Islands, says minister, as Priti Patel says Tories opposed to deal– as it happened

Stephen Doughty, foreign office minister, says if UK had not negotiated a deal with Mauritius, ‘a legally binding decision against UK seemed inevitable’. Wes Streeting has now delivered his ...

World - The Guardian - November 13