conscience

Some on Capitol Hill think four could be rallied to vote their conscience.

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.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised his party will be allowed to vote freely with their conscience.

"I could not in all conscience support it today. I could not look health service workers in the eye and say I had put my name to pay funding that will be lower than England and Wales."

The text of the measure was unenforceable, but the dead words remained in the California Constitution, a dead weight on our collective conscience.