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UK-based membership of the Swiss assisted dying centre Dignitas has grown by 50% in the last five years, new figures show. In 2024, there were 2,231 members of non-profit Dignitas (full name DIGNITAS – To live with dignity, die with dignity) compared to 1,430 in 2019. Membership – a prerequisite to having an assisted death… Read more »
Tom Gordon MP has put forward an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults Bill to reduce the deadline for the Government to introduce assisted dying from four years to three. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision have welcomed the amendment. The first draft of the Bill set the maximum time the Government could take… Read more »
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No comment, no analysis: just the basic policies of today’s Pre-Budget Report. Economic forecasts UK economy to contract by between 0.75 and 1.25 per cent in 2009 Inflation to fall sharply to one per cent next year UK economy grow by between 1.5 and two per cent in 2010 and continue to recover Borrowing Government… Read more »
The government has initiated the first stage of its welfare reform programme today despite fierce opposition from children’s groups. Single parent families are being forced into employment under the reforms to the way child benefits are paid out. One Parent Families/Gingerbread said this is the “wrong policy at the wrong time”. Starting from today lone… Read more »
