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 Where reason is superseded by dogma and ill-temper.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 […]
Exclusive: David Neuberger, who ruled on high-profile assisted dying cases, believes tight terms of bill cannot be expanded in courts The former president of the supreme court who ruled on the most high-profile assisted dying cases has declared his support for the law change, as MPs backing the bill say […]
Scale of the criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders Police believe Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused more than 111 women over nearly four decades, with his youngest victim said to have been just […]