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Holland has had unofficial assisted suicide for the past thirty years. On April 14, 2001, to encourage doctors to report assisted suicides without fear of prosecution, the practice was given the sanction of law. It is not compulsory, it never was and there is absolutely no prospect of it ever being so.

James Mawdsley is needlessly alarming the elderly and the vulnerable in the hope of securing their votes. How can anyone consider that such disgracefully irresponsible behaviour is likley to encourage the trust of the electorate? And , which is worse, how can anyone publish such arrant nonsense and expect that the public will be decieved by it?