Opponents to a change in the law on suicide said that vulnerable people including domestic abuse victims, the disabled and anorexics could all be at risk if doctors are allowed to help them to die.

Dame Siobhain McDonagh warned that an assisted dying service could 'rob our stretched NHS of much needed resources' after Wes Streeting spoke in the Commons.

The Other Half warned that victims of such abuse are already at a higher risk of taking their own lives and the situation could be exacerbated by the Terminally Ill Adults (End of…