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The Health Secretary said the Government would need to work through ‘a very new way of working’ if the Bill was passed.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has repeatedly said the palliative care system is not ‘where it needs to be to give people a real choice’.

Opposition campaigners have raised fears of coercion and a slippery slope to wider legislation taking in more people.

Dave Rowntree said criminalisation of assisted dying shows ‘absolutely no empathy for the sufferer’

Dave Rowntree speaks out about his ex-wife’s choice to take her life at Dignitas in Switzerland

The legislation would allow terminally ill patients with six months or less to live to end their lives.

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The bill is expected to have strict eligibility criteria and is seen as more likely to succeed than an attempt in 2015

A survey of 2,000 adults revealed that nearly half (48 per cent) support assisted dying

Nine years after the failure of the last assisted dying bill, MPs to vote according their conscience.

Straight away, she told me she wasn’t going to let the illness progress. She wanted to end this at Dignitas. I was really shocked – firstly about her diagnosis, but also about her immediate decision to die sooner than ‘the end’.