On September 11, 2026, commentators gasped as the U.K. Parliament rejected the “assisted suicide” proposal that had plagued its chambers for almost two years. The defeat was not only a cultural stake in the ground for common sense in the U.K.; it also cut short the apparent tsunami of assisted-suicide laws sweeping across the European continent and showed the world that the issue isn’t settled. Strikingly, this landmark decision came from the most socially and politically progressive Parliament in British history.
How did this happen?
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