Assisted dying law may soon diverge across British Isles, MPs warn

Assisted dying is a ‘difficult, sensitive and yet crucial subject’, the health and social care committee said in its report. Photograph: sturti/Getty Images

Laws to allow assisted dying may pass in Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Man in the next few years, leading to a divergence between different parts of the UK and British Isles, MPs have warned.

The government must consider the repercussions of this, a parliamentary inquiry into assisted dying has said.