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A cross-party group of 60 MPs have urged parliament — and the government — to increase funding for palliative care in the light of the vote on assisted suicide last week This letter [...]

The debate on the Assisted Dying Bill showed parliament at its finest. As I attempted to get into the public gallery at the House of Commons last Friday afternoon, I heard a huge cheer from the [...]

Out of 650 MPs, a total of 448 took part in the free vote on assisted dying. Of these 448, 330 opposed the Bill and 118 supported the Bill. It was a free vote, which meant they could support [...]

As has been said many times since Friday’s second reading debate on the Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill, we saw Parliament at its finest then. I have not sat through a debate in which so many [...]

‘I want to die. Please help me.’ It was 2 a.m. in the good old days when patients had 24-hour cover by their own GPs. I knew Martin well. His bladder cancer had been diagnosed the year before, [...]

MPs decisively threw out proposals to give people the right to be helped to die by a two-to-one majority yesterday after a historic debate in a packed House of Commons. In the first Commons [...]

MPs have voted overwhelmingly against changing the law to allow doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives. In their first vote on the issue for about 20 years, the Commons rejected [...]

A controversial bill that would have made it legal for the terminally ill to end their lives has been defeated in the House of Commons. MPs voted 330 to 118 to reject the Assisted Dying Bill, [...]

An MP opposed to plans to legalise assisted dying says they highlight the “appalling” state of end-of-life care. Montgomeryshire Conservative member Glyn Davies is hoping to block the [...]

ISER experts were asked to assess the reliability of opinion poll data collected by the pressure group, Diginity in Dying, ahead of the parliamentary debate on the right to die. Dr Tarek Al [...]