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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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Prime minister Tony Blair has undermined public trust in politics and is facing a crisis over standards in public life as significant as the cash for questions scandal that marked the end of John Major’s government, the outgoing public standards watchdog has claimed. Sir Alistair Graham claims the Labour government will be “as closely associated… Read more »
A businessman who lent £1 million to Labour at the 2005 general election has reportedly admitted to discussing peerages with the party’s chief fundraiser, Lord Levy. But in a letter, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, to stakeholders in his company, Professor Sir Christopher Evans strongly denies the implication that he was promised an honour in… Read more »
