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About 20 terminally ill people in UK die in unrelieved pain each day, research finds

Office of Health Economics says it used ‘most conservative of estimates’ and ‘true number is likely to be much larger’

The Guardian - UK

Labour tempers flare over assisted dying as MP accuses peer of ‘hugely offensive’ remarks

Lord Falconer was accused of ‘offensive remarks’ over his claim that Shabana Mahmood’s opposition to the assisted dying bill is to do with her Islamic faith

The Independent UK

Ministers following own ‘moral code’ on assisted dying vote – Jess Phillips

Home Office minister Jess Phillips defended her colleague Shabana Mahmood, who made clear she would vote against the Bill in a strongly worded letter.

Evening Standard

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UK politics: Badenoch refuses to commit to reversing rise in employers’ national insurance in speech at CBI – as it happened

Tory leader says she will not ‘comment on every bit of micro-policy’

The Guardian - UK

MPs to vote on assisted dying as row over ministerial criticism deepens

Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater’s legislation will come before the Commons on Friday.

Evening Standard

Ministers speaking out against assisted dying ‘are giving false impression’, says peer

Labour’s Charlie Falconer says vocal opponents are leading voters to think government is against change

The Guardian - UK

Shabana Mahmood should not impose her religious beliefs on others, says peer

Charlie Falconer says Labour colleague and justice secretary has ‘religious reasons’ for opposing assisted dying

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Kendall defends Cabinet colleagues voicing ‘strong opinions’ on assisted dying

The Work and Pensions Secretary said she would not criticise the health and justice secretaries for their interventions on the issue.

The Independent UK

Justice Secretary says assisted dying ‘slippery slope to death on demand’

Shabana Mahmood said she was ‘profoundly concerned’ by the Bill.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying is ‘slippery slope’ to ‘death on demand’, says justice secretary

Labour grandee Lord Falconer has hit back at Shabana Mahmood, saying she was ‘wrong’ to say the safeguards in the proposed new law were not enough

The Independent UK

UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’

Shabana Mahmood has written to her constituents saying she is ‘profoundly concerned’ about Friday’s Commons vote

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the UK’s election challenges: an epidemic of intimidation

Editorial: When more than half of candidates faced campaign abuse and threats, we are putting their safety at risk

The Guardian - UK

Labour tells watchdog of police failures over intimidation of MP and supporters

Party documents police failings to intervene in incidents involving opponents of Shabana Mahmood during elections

The Guardian - UK

Stop scaremongering over prisoners trapped by indefinite jail terms, ministers told

Exclusive: Fight for indefinitely held IPP prisoners continues as the UN calls for partial resentencing, warning ‘we cannot allow more people to take their lives out of a lack of action’

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Robert Jenrick warned over Southport attack remarks in first outing as shadow justice secretary

Hours after he was made shadow justice secretary by new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick sought to attack Labour’s record in government from the despatch box

Evening Standard

Jenrick says Labour popular with criminals as he demands apology over releases

The new shadow justice secretary asked how many domestic abusers and sex offenders were freed under the scheme to increase prison capacity.

The Guardian - UK

MPs’ opposition to assisted dying bill grows amid criticism of lack of debate

Chair of parliamentary group against assisted dying says she has been meeting dozens of undecided MPs

The Guardian - UK

Justice secretary urged to place Winchester prison into emergency measures

Inspectorate wrote to Shabana Mahmood citing violence, drug and security problems at Hampshire jail

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The Independent UK

Prisoner removes his own cell door at ‘dilapidated’ jail placed in emergency measures

HMP Winchester is ninth jail to be issued with urgent notification in just two years

Evening Standard

Judge reduced to cleaning courthouse gutters amid justice funding crisis

Country’s most senior judge calls for ‘concrete steps’ from government to support the justice system

The Guardian - UK

GP who was adviser in Harold Shipman inquiry backs legalising assisted dying

Exclusive: Aneez Esmail says treating dying man in extreme pain six years ago changed his mind on helping terminally ill patients die

Evening Standard

Adult male prison spaces ‘fell into double figures’, says Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood said that when she was appointed as Lord Chancellor prisons were ‘weeks away from running out of space altogether’.

The Guardian - UK

Tories feign innocence as Labour give more prisoners early release

Tough-on-crime brigade look scarce as convicts win a break from crumbling prison system

Evening Standard

Woman ‘terrified’ after ruling upheld that her daughter’s killer should be freed

The board was asked by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to reconsider its recommendation that farm worker Steven Ling should be released.

The Independent UK

Starmer ‘shares public’s anger’ as prisoners pictured leaving prison early

Around 1,100 inmates are expected to be freed in a second wave of early releases under the Government’s policy to free up prison space.

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