Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he believes palliative care for terminally-ill people can become good enough for that not to be a barrier to legalising assisted suicide, but he still has concerns over coercion.
The Cabinet minister – who plans to vote against the assisted dying Bill when it is debated later this month – has repeatedly expressed his view that the palliative care system is not “where it needs to be to give people a real choice”.
