Our free email newsletter sends you the biggest headlines from news, sport and showbiz Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailA terminally ill campaigner has urged the UK not to get “left behind” after New Zealand legalised assisted dying. Noel Conway, who took his battle for the right to die to the Supreme Court, said it was unfair for Britain to still ban assisted suicide. He said: “Because I have spent most of my life in the UK, I am denied the rights that terminally ill New Zealanders may soon be granted. These developments come amid growing calls for an inquiry into the UK’s blanket ban on assisted dying. "A safeguarded assisted dying law is the hallmark of a liberal,compassionate society, the lack of which is a stain on our country’s reputation.”

Source: Daily Mirror October 30, 2020 19:42 UTC