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…

Opponents of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill also believe they may have the numbers to see it off the proposed decriminalisation in England and Wales.

The biggest change on the law on suicide for decades is expected to take place this afternoon, with the result on a knife edge.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will either clear the House of Commons and move to the Lords, or fail completely

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…

Medics will be allowed to help the terminally ill end their own lives after a bitterly contested vote in the Commons this afternoon.

The Commons backed allowing medics to help terminally ill people to die this afternoon despite warnings that the legislation is unsafe.