The Prime Minister will not support a controversial Bill to legalise assisted suicide, according to Downing Street sources.
Boris Johnson reviewed arguments for and against the Assisted Dying Bill of Baroness Meacher during his summer break and decided that he would not back a change in the law to allow doctors to assist in the suicides of terminally ill patients.
The revelations in the Daily Telegraph represent a blow to the well-financed and highly-organised campaign of Dignity in Dying, a group formerly known as the Voluntary Euthanasia Society.
