9 d. ago What happens next to assisted dying law change as MPs vote on controversial issue

MPs have debated the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the Commons for the first time since November's 'yes' vote. The Mirror looks at what could happen next

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1 week ago Assisted dying law change set for major moment as MPs prepare for key votes

MPs will debate the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - spearheaded by Labour's Kim Leadbeater - on Friday for the first time since November's yes vote

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1 week ago The Guardian view on abortion prosecutions: decriminalisation can’t wait | Editorial

The trial of Nicola Packer shows why MPs should seize the opportunity to change the law and safeguard vulnerable women nowThe Crown Prosecution Service has yet to explain why it thought that pursuing a case against Nicola Packer was in the public interest. Thankfully, jurors last week cleared the 45-year-old of illegally terminating her pregnancy. But more than four years of police and criminal proceedings have had a lasting impact on a woman already traumatised by discovering that she was 26 weeks pregnant, not about 10, when she acted. The trial dragged her private life – even her sexual preferences – into the public eye. Understandably, she called it “humiliating”. But it is prosecutors who should feel shame.Ms Packer was prescribed abortion pills in a remote consultation, due to a Covid lockdown. Prosecutors alleged that she deliberately breached the abortion time limit. Jurors believed Ms Packer, who said that she was horrified to realise how advanced her pregnancy was whe...

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1 week ago Cosmetic surgery being conducted in ‘living rooms and Airbnbs’, MPs hear

There have been calls for legislation which would mean only qualified surgeons can conduct certain procedures.

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1 week ago What is the Assisted Dying Bill? Controversial new law backed by Scottish MPs

Scottish parliament held its third vote over the assisted dying bill

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1 week ago Provision of child play spaces should be duty in English planning law, MPs say

Parliamentary group launched alongside campaign for ‘play sufficiency duty’ that matches those in Wales and ScotlandUK politics live – latest updatesA duty to provide space for children to play on new developments should be embedded in planning law, MPs and campaigners have said.The first ever all-party parliamentary group on play was launched on Tuesday alongside a campaign to bring in a “play sufficiency duty” in England to match those in Wales and Scotland. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Space for children to play should be a requirement in planning law, say MPs

Parliamentary group launched alongside campaign for ‘play sufficiency duty’ that matches those in Wales and ScotlandUK politics live – latest updatesA duty to provide space for children to play on new developments should be embedded in planning law, MPs and campaigners have said.The first ever all-party parliamentary group on play was launched on Tuesday alongside a campaign to bring in a “play sufficiency duty” in England to match those in Wales and Scotland. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Flagship immigration reforms closer to law following MPs’ vote of support

MPs voted 316 to 95, majority 221 at third reading in support of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.

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2 w. ago Data reforms move closer to becoming law amid calls to ‘protect artists’ from AI

The Government pledged to conduct an economic impact assessment of the policy options put forward in its copyright and AI consultation.

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2 w. ago Senior Tory MPs and peers break ranks to call for recognition of Palestine

Exclusive: Conservatives ask Keir Starmer to stand ‘against indefinite occupation’ and ‘reinforce international law’More than a dozen senior Conservative MPs and peers have written to the prime minister calling for the UK to immediately recognise Palestine as a state, breaking ranks with their own party to do so.Seven MPs and six members of the House of Lords have signed the letter to Keir Starmer urging him to defy the Israeli government and give formal recognition to Palestine in advance of key UN talks next month. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Mum who fears never knowing why her child died backs data disclosure law change

Jools Sweeney, aged 14, died in April 2022, and his mum Ellen has called on social media firms to share his user data with her.

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