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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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With news this morning that the UK’s GDP had contracted by 0.5 per cent in July you might have expected Keir Starmer, who as Labour leader has insisted the UK needs “growth, growth, growth”, to focus his PMQs questions on Britain’s perennial economic woes. But the Labour leader opted to place his flagship “mission” to… Read more »
Those who have paid attention to British politics at all since 2020 will know that Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are different politicians, both in style and in substance. Indeed, Rayner and Starmer’s relationship, the standard telling goes, is a marriage of inconvenience. That they have been forced together is regretted as an unhappy accident… Read more »
