Terminally ill adults with less than six months to live will be given right to die under proposed legislation MPs have taken a historic step toward legalising assisted dying in England and Wales by backing a bill that would give some terminally ill people the right to end their own […]
Month: November 2024
Many powerful voices spoke for and against the bill, but those of constituents had the greatest sway over MPs • Assisted dying vote – latest updates It is hard to think of a better MP to take on the cause of assisted dying than Kim Leadbeater. She is energetic, engaging, […]
Bill will proceed to committee for scrutiny, whose membership will be chosen by its proposer Kim Leadbeater MPs have voted by 330 to 275 to approve the assisted dying bill at a second reading. But the bill is not yet law and still has to pass through several other steps. […]
The emotion on display during five hours of heated discussion speaks to the complexity and importance of the bill itself Who would have guessed? All too often debates in the Commons are partisan affairs, punctuated by jeers and braying. Where reason is superseded by dogma and ill-temper. This was a […]
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city. Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive […]
Exclusive: MP leading bill urges MPs to vote to give terminally ill people autonomy over their own bodies • Key issues in the assisted dying debate Legalising assisted dying is a “once in a decade” opportunity, the MP leading the bill has said in her final plea to parliament before […]
Transport secretary was mugged in 2013 and incorrectly included work phone on list given to police of stolen items The transport secretary has a conviction for fraud by misrepresentation after wrongly reporting her work mobile phone stolen in 2013, it has emerged. Louise Haigh was convicted by Camberwell Green magistrates […]
Russian president says ‘intelligent’ US president-elect will find solution to Ukraine war Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike Kyiv with Oreshnik missiles, an intermediate-range weapon that Moscow used against the city of Dnipro last week and that Putin has claimed cannot be shot down by any air defence system. “We […]
President accuses government of declaring ‘war on its own people’, as thousands take to streets over fears government is steering country towards Russia Police clashed with protesters in the Georgian capital Tbilisi early on Friday, after the country’s ruling party said the government would suspend talks on European Union accession […]
Presenter faces allegations of inappropriate sexual comments from 13 people – and Rod Stewart calls him an ‘ill-mannered bully’ The TV presenter Gregg Wallace will step away from his role on MasterChef after the BBC received complaints about alleged misconduct. The presenter Kirsty Wark, who was a Celebrity MasterChef contestant […]