Health Secretary Wes Streeting is facing pushback from senior Labour figures over his repeated strident interventions against a move to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. MPs will have their say on the issue later this month – in what is known as a free vote, where they are not instructed how to vote by their parties.

Implementing a new assisted dying law would come at the expense of other NHS services, the health secretary has suggested. Wes Streeting, who once supported assisted dying, plans to vote against the new Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill later this ...

The Health Secretary said he had asked his department to analyse the costs of implementing any change in the law on assisted dying.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it is a 'red line' for him that medics will be allowed to opt out of assisted dying work if a controversial new Bill becomes law

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The Health Secretary is publicly opposing assisted dying despite Cabinet ministers being asked to stay neutral.