How big a shift will it be if the UK passes assisted dying? It will be a historic moment in

Parliament and also in the country. Yeah, I think it would be a momentous shift in the type of country

we are if it happens. I think you have to go all the way back to the 60s, aren't you? And there

debates on capital punishment and abortion to find something so seismic and so momentous

for this country.

Welcome to Political Fix from the Financial Times with me, Lucy Fisher.

MPs will vote on assisted dying for the first time in nearly a decade on Friday.

It could pave the way to one of the most significant social changes of our time,

and parliamentarians are

deeply divided over this emotive issue. Meanwhile, new migration stats show that net arrivals to the

UK hit a record of 900,000 people last year, far higher than previously estimated. But the numbers

are now falling. Plus, does Kirstama need a reset? Well, to discuss all this,

I'm joined in the studio by my FT colleagues and regular political fixes, George Parker and Stephen

Bush. Hello to you both. Hi, Lucy. And the FT's public policy correspondent Laura Hughes is here.

Hi, Laura. Hello, Lucy. So Laura, thanks for

joining us. I know you've been covering this issue of the assisted dying bill really closely.

Now, just set out for us, will you, what exactly MPs are voting on on Friday?

So we're going to see MPs voting on a private member's bill that has been drawn up

with some of the strictest, toughest laws on assisted dying in the whole world. And the rule set out

in the bill will basically enable a patient with a prognosis of six months to live, the right to end

their life. They will need sign off from two doctors, and they

will also need to go to a High Court judge to have an assisted death approved. So these are very

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