The House of Lords has rejected the latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales.
Peers voted by 179 votes to 145 against Lord Forsyth’s amendment to the Health and Care Bill that would have forced the Government to bring forward assisted suicide legislation within a year.
It is the 12th time since 1997 that proposals for assisted suicide have not been thrown out by Parliament.
Ciarán Kelly of the Christian Institute said the vote had prevented “a real threat to the lives of vulnerable people”.
