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Blighty newsletter: Starmer’s silence puts the assisted-dying bill at risk

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Illustration: Katherine Lam

This is the introduction to Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain.

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