Environment secretary Steve Reed says trip to US involving Labour staffers not paid for or organised by Labour partyThe health secretary Wes Streeting is to vote against the assisted dying bill, saying he had concluded that end-of-life care was currently not fit to deliver it safely.Speaking to Labour backbenchers, Streeting said he had initially believed in the right to choose by terminally ill patients but said that he had changed his mind given the degraded state of the health service.Underneath that philosophical ethical question are a whole series of practical ones about which I am deeply uncomfortable.Candidly, when I think about this question of being a burden, I do not think that palliative care, end-of-life care in this country is in a condition yet where we are giving people the freedom to choose, without being coerced by the lack of support available.There’s no organised deal on this – they’re all volunteers, they pay their way …This is Trump’s campaign doing what campaigns do, creating controversy during an election. Continue reading…
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