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A senior professor of old-age psychiatry has branded the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ (RCPsych) approach to the Assisted Dying Bill ‘inconsistent with the college membership’. Baroness Elaine Murphy, a prominent medical member of the House of Lords, has added her voice to a growing number of RCPsych members, including a former college president and vice-president,… Read more »
The House of Lords Select Committee on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life Bill) held the first oral evidence sessions today, where it heard overwhelmingly that patient choice and autonomy are enhanced by the introduction of assisted dying. The Bill sponsors and three representatives from Royal Colleges all said that patients will be able… Read more »
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A senior Conservative has urged the prime minister to rethink the government’s international deportations plan with Rwanda, calling it a “knee jerk” reaction which, in its current form, “offends the innate British instinct of justice”. Robert Buckland, who served as justice secretary from 2019 to 2021 and later as Welsh secretary, has called on the… Read more »
Just 23 per cent of the public say Britain should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), according to a new poll. The poll also found that pledging to leave the ECHR at the next election, expected in 2024, could lose the Conservatives twice as many votes for the Conservatives as they might gain… Read more »
