The Latest Breaking News from Wes Streeting

At the end there was high tension on both sides of a debate that for some was deeply personal

Supporters and opponents of a change in the law gathered at Westminster holding placards saying ‘Let us choose’ and ‘Don’t make doctors killers’.

BMA warns government faces ‘several groups of doctors on picket lines together later this year’

MPs have a free vote on the Bill, meaning they decide according to their conscience rather than along party lines.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: No stranger to oversight errors, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has now been revealed to have allowed hundreds of underqualified or fraudulently qualified nurses to work in Britain. Wes Streeting should now draft in his predecessor to assist in rooting them out

The Good Morning Britain presenter, 58, is facing ‘excessive, unpayable debt’ from caring for her late husband, Derek Draper

MPs will likely vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday, which could see it either progress to the House of Lords or fall.

Wes Streeting told MPs that reputations are protected instead of patients being told the truth.

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The health secretary said it would be ‘foolish’ to rule out a greater role for the private sector in the NHS

With the cost of living and immigration being too severely impacted by outside factors, backing the NHS was the right choice – and delivering results on health is Labour’s best chance of winning the next election, writes John Rentoul