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GPs in England are deeply divided on whether assisted dying should be allowed, a BBC survey suggests. In their report, Catherine Burns and Harriet Agerholm report:
BBC News sent more than 5,000 GPs a questionnaire asking whether they agreed with changing the law to allow assisted dying for certain terminally ill people in England and Wales.
More than 1,000 GPs replied, with about 500 telling us they were against an assisted dying law and about 400 saying they were in favour.
The Scottish parliament voted last night to consider a bill to allow assisted dying for terminally ill people for the first time, after a prolonged debate by MSPs.
At least five MPs who previously abstained on the assisted dying bill have decided to vote against it at its next stage in the commons, the Guardian has learned.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has voiced its opposition to the assisted dying bill in England and Wales over “many, many factors”.
The Times can also reveal that 1.5 million foreign workers who have moved to Britain since 2020 face having to wait a further five years to apply for permanent settlement.
Under reforms set out in the immigration white paper, automatic settlement and citizenship rights will be granted after ten years instead of five, but it did not state whether this would apply for migrants already here.
The white paper proposes increasing the duration to settlement to 10 years as the standard amount for workers, with family members still able to get settlement after 5 years. Other proposals allowing earlier settlement for people making a greater social or economic contribution are also set out, with details to be consulted on. A ten-year route to settlement would make the UK more restrictive than most other high-income countries but comparable to Switzerland and Japan.
Mihnea Cuibus, researcher at the Migration Observatory, said: “The newly proposed policies would mean more migrants have temporary status. Making the route to permanent status longer is unlikely to significantly affect migration levels. One of the main impacts would be to bring in more visa-fee revenue to the Home Office, because people on temporary visas pay ongoing fees to be here. For migrants themselves, this means higher costs and longer periods without the rights that come with permanent status and citizenship.” Continue reading…
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