(Michael Curzon/The European Conservative) — The health secretary has warned that the bill will result in vulnerable people being “coerced” into ending their lives. Parliament’s most experienced MPs have been scathing of both the legislation’s “process” and “likely practice once implemented,” which a former attorney-general says would breach Britain’s human rights laws. Even parts of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s own team believe this has been rushed, and regret that it was brought forward in the first place.
Yet MPs have voted in favour of legalising assisted suicide, by a majority of 330 to 275.
Among those who backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill were 234 from Labour (58% of the party’s MPs), 23 Tories (19%) and a majority from Reform UK (60%). Reform’s Rupert Lowe revealed earlier in the day that he was voting for the law to be changed because just over 1% of his constituents told him to.
Read more at The European Conservative…
LifeSiteNews also has a piece on this: “UK Parliament votes in favor of bill allowing doctors to kill their patients”
