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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Sherwood

Jonathan Dimbleby urges MPs to ‘get off the fence’ on assisted dying

Jonathan Dimbleby
Dimbleby said MPs must have a ‘proper full debate about all the implications, and at the end of that I am sure they will introduce legislation’. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images

Jonathan Dimbleby has urged MPs to “get off the fence” on the issue of assisted dying and said public opinion is “overwhelmingly in favour of change”.

After his younger brother, Nicholas, died with debilitating motor neurone disease earlier this year, Dimbleby said the current law was “anachronistically cruel”.

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