Assisted dying bill: What happens next?

Oscar Bentley Political reporter Parliament The draft law that would legalise assisted dying in some circumstances in England and Wales has cleared all of its initial stages in the House of Commons. MPs voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in principle back in November by a majority of 55….

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How much will it cost?

Labour’s original plan to reform the welfare system was a hasty effort to try to make billions of pounds of cuts to a rapidly growing bill in order to help the chancellor meet her self-imposed rules on government borrowing. But this latest U-turn raises significant questions about just how stability and credibility-enhancing it really is…

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