Wes Streeting “crossed the line” by warning that the NHS could not afford assisted dying without making cuts elsewhere, a Labour grandee has said. Harriet Harman, a former interim Labour leader, criticised the Health Secretary for wading into the debate when Cabinet ministers were told to remain neutral.

I’m disappointed that the health secretary came out to speak about the bill before he had even seen the bill,’ says Kim Leadbeater. Starmer says small boat crossings will become 'much more difficult' if supply of boats disrupted 13:36 Keir Starmer has given an interview to broadcasters following the news that a joint Dutch/Belgian/British investigation has led to an arrest in Amsterdam of a man suspected of playing a key role in supplying small boats.

Infighting has broken out in Labour after Wes Streeting made yet another high-profile intervention opposing the forthcoming assisted dying vote. The Health Secretary has become the most vocal and most senior voice in the Labour Party arguing against MPs backing Kim Leadbeater’s Private Members' Bill.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it is a 'red line' for him that medics will be allowed to opt out of assisted dying work if a controversial new Bill becomes law

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is facing pushback from senior Labour figures over his repeated strident interventions against a move to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. MPs will have their say on the issue later this month – in what is known as a free vote,

The Health Secretary has said he is against a change in the law to allow terminally ill people to be given assistance to end their lives.

Implementing a new assisted dying law would come at the expense of other NHS services, the health secretary has suggested. Wes Streeting, who once supported assisted dying, plans to vote against the new Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill later this month,