MPs now believe they will soon have the numbers to change the law so the terminally ill can choose the timing and manner of their deaths. Last week Justice minister Alex Chalk told assisted dying campaigner and former Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell: “We have no plans to review the law on assisted suicide.”(Image: Getty Images/Westend61)He said that any change would be a matter for MPs and their consciences. Tory Party members back assisted dying by three to one and surveys show public approval is growing. Allowing others to help the terminally ill take their own lives was twice rejected by Parliament in 2015. Since then assisted dying has been legalised in Canada, four US states and in Australia’s Victoria.

Source: Daily Mirror November 14, 2020 22:17 UTC