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Orme, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene article by uploading one image and 26 videos of monkey torture, and to having encouraged or assisted the commission of unnecessary suffering by making a £10 payment to a PayPal account.

This will be the first Commons vote on assisted dying since MPs rejected allowing terminally ill adults to end their lives under medical supervision in 2015.

The assisted dying bill has been introduced by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who argues her legislation is the "most robust" in the world.

The prime minister, a former director of public prosecutions, has previously supported assisted dying, but the government has pledged to remain neutral on the issue, and MPs are being allowed to vote according to their conscience rather than along party lines.

Implementing a new assisted dying law would come at the expense of other NHS services, the health secretary has suggested.