The right to die is about freedom – don’t let those who see it as a line on a spreadsheet torpedo it | Polly Toynbee

Wes Streeting cheapens discussion on the right to die by suggesting there is no money to pay for a doctor to hand a dying patient the lethal dose they request.

Disingenuously, he suggests that finding the funding would mean cuts to other services.

Parliament will vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill in two weeks ’ time.

The bill’s conditions are stricter than any law in other countries with a right to die.

Polly Toynbee says there is no excuse for Labour MPs to dither over the bill.

She says everyone who ever thinks about what kind of death they could face deserves to know they can go when they choose.