Health secretary steps up opposition to mooted reform, saying it would have ‘resource implications’ for other services

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has said that passing a bill to allow assisted dying would limit the ability of the NHS to provide other services.

In comments that mark a significant escalation of his opposition to the bill, the health secretary told Times Radio this morning:

[Assisted dying] would be a big change. There would be resource implications for doing it. And those choices would come at the expense of other choices.

Yep. To govern is to choose. If parliament chooses to go ahead with assisted dying, it is making a choice that this is an area to prioritise for investment. And we’d have to work through those implications.