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Campaigners for and against law change gather before assisted dying debate

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Campaigners both for and against a change in the law on assisted dying are gathering outside Parliament as MPs prepare to take part in debate over a petition on the issue backed by Dame Esther Rantzen.

The Childline founder and broadcaster, who has stage four lung cancer, has said law reform would “mean that I could look forward in confidence to a death which is pain-free surrounded by people I love”.

Dame Esther’s revelation in December that she had joined the assisted dying clinic Dignitas helped to put the issue back in the headlines.

The 83-year-old former That’s Life! presenter is not attending the Westminster Hall debate on Monday due to

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