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MPs to vote again on assisted dying as bill returns to parliament – UK politics live

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Bill would allow terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to end their lives, after the approval of a panel of experts Esther Rantzen has said she is no longer able to travel to Switzerland to end her life because she has become “too physically fragile”. Rantzen, who presented the TV current affairs programme That’s Life!

for 21 years and founded the youth support charity Childline, had intended to end her life in a Dignitas assisted dying clinic in Switzerland after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023.

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