MPs across divide call for better palliative care after assisted dying vote

Layla Moran and Diane Abbott say end-of-life care needs more funding after bill passed for England and Wales

MPs on both sides of the debate over assisted dying have called for improvements to palliative care, regardless of whether parliament eventually enacts legalisation.

Layla Moran, who supported the bill at its second reading on Friday, and Diane Abbott, who did not, agreed that more funding was required to improve end-of-life care during a joint-interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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