HEALTH SECRETARY TO VOTE AGAINST ASSISTED DYING LAW- Wes Streeting and the Justice Secretary are against the assisted dying bill.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he will vote against the assisted dying law.
Streeting, who is resolute in his opposition, has expressed his concern about British citizens being ‘coerced’ into ending their lives.
The Health Secretary told Labour MPs at a meeting of the parliamentary party that he will vote against the Bill to legalise assisted dying over concerns regarding the state of palliative care in the UK.
Explaining his stance, the Health Secretary said: “I’ve come down this time on voting against the Bill on the basis that I worry about palliative care, end-of-life care not being good enough to give people a real choice.
Streeting argues that the NHS services are not currently good enough to give people a ‘real choice’.
Mr Streeting is now the second member of the Cabinet to explicitly state that he will vote against the legislation, after Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary.
The proposals, which MPs will have a free vote on in November, would allow those who have six months to live to be assisted to end their life, subject to safeguards.
