Nicola Sturgeon has said she is “veering against” a Holyrood Bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland, warning that it could be the “thin end of the wedge”.
The majority of doctors who support scrapping end-of-life protections for the terminally ill are least involved in their care, a bioethicist has argued.
It may have just been an unlucky coincidence, but only this week Mark Drakeford was challenged in a TV interview about his falling approval ratings as first minister of Wales. An ITV poll showed that while 31 per cent of Welsh voters think he’s doing a good job, 50 per cent do not, an 18-month low for that particular metric.