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Why the ‘individual conscience vote’ of MPs had its own assisted death last week

Why the ‘individual conscience vote’ of MPs had its own assisted death last week

Votes on abortion and assisted death suggest the UK is on the cusp of a major shift – issues once determined by the conscience of individual MPs are becoming American-style party political matters, political editor David Maddox writes

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