A newly-promoted health minister has criticised UK rules on assisted suicide as "ridiculous", adding that legislation needs to "evolve". Anna Soubry, who was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Department of Health in this week's reshuffle, called for greater "honesty" about when prosecutions would be brought for helping relatives to die. Her comments come after locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson, 58, died a week after he lost his legal fight to end his life with a doctor's help. The father of two, from Melksham, Wiltshire, had been refusing food and contracted pneumonia after he was left "crestfallen" by the court's decision....
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