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The Trump administration claimed Britain was legalising ‘state-subsidised suicide’

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The Trump administration has lashed out at the UK after MPs passed Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill - accusing Britain of “standing for surrender and death”.

The president’s State Department said the US “reaffirms the sanctity of life” in an attack on the Labour MP’s Terminally Ill Adults Bill.