* general election 2010
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
On 22 October, for the first time in years, the UK Parliament will debate legislation to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill. Humanists UK, which campaigns for a right to die for those with terminal or incurable illnesses, fully supports the Assisted Dying Bill as a landmark step towards much-needed reform. It will be… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson The key planks of the Conservatives’ 2010 election platform are becoming clearer, one day before David Cameron publishes the party’s manifesto. In the foreword to the document the Tory leader argues his party has “the energy, the ideas, the ambition to get Britain back on track”. Among the main measures is expected… Read more »
By Sandamali Zbyszewski The Conservatives launched counter-measures to Labour’s proposed ten per cent tax-rise on cider today. The tax rise which had been introduced in the Budget was successfully blocked from taking effect this month by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats during the wash-up period. Speaking at Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm in Truro, shadow culture… Read more »
