suicide. the medically assisted suicide. the terminally ill adults end of life choice bill passed its second reading with a majority of 55, after a passionate five hour debate in the house of commons. is this a victory for liberty or a fundamental blow to the value of human life.7 and transport secretary louise hague has resigned after it emerged that she received a conviction for fraud in 2014, six months before she was elected as an mp. she claims it was an innocent mistake, but is there more to the story than has so far been revealed? and today is black friday, with brits expected to splurge over £3 billion in store and online. could this be a much needed pre—christmas boost to the uk's struggling retail sector? well, that's all to come in the next hour. but first, the latest news headlines with sophia wenzler. >> miriam. thank you. good evening. these are your headunes evening. these are your headlines at 6:00. opponents of assisted dying are vowing to

fight on after kim ledbetter's bill passed its first commons hurdle today. the vote, which followed 4.5 hours of debate, saw 330 mps in favour, with 275 opposed. >> the ayes to the right 330. the noes to the left 275. the ayes have it. the ayes have it. >> unlock details show the prime minister, sir keir starmer, was among those who voted in favour of the bill. legislation would allow terminally ill adults to end their lives with the approval of two doctors and a high court judge . while the bill high court judge. while the bill has sparked division supporters like labour's chris curtis told gb news that today's result will leave thousands of people heartened. but several stages remain before the bill becomes law and a number of mps indicated they could still vote against it if safeguards in the legislation were not strengthened. conservative mp danny kruger, who led opposition to the bill, said he was

disappointed with the verdict. >> my concern, though, is that we're going to change the way the medical profession works, the medical profession works, the way our whole society thinks about life and death. i mean, what now will happen if we pass this law is that every person who's approaching the end of their life, or who qualifies for an assisted death, which would be a lot of people. but every elderly person, every member of their family would have to consider this new option, and they'd have to have the conversation. is it time for mum or granny or myself to apply for an assisted death? is it the right thing ? we need to do so right thing? we need to do so much more to help those people. we really, really do. that's what we should be putting all of our efforts into improving palliative care. the whole of society will change the whole of the way we relate to our doctors will change if we pass this law. >> now, gb news understands that number 10 was not aware of the full facts about transport secretary louise hay's past convictions, and they were not known until reports broke last night. it's also understood the 2014 conviction was not declared

in hay's transparency disclosures when she became transport secretary on the 5th of july. however, these reports are strongly disputed by those close to hay. downing street has named justice minister heidi alexander as her replacement. louise hay's cabinet resignation came after it emerged last night she was convicted of a criminal offence before she was an mp. she admitted to falsely reporting a stolen work phone in 2013, calling it a mistake, and insists she gained nothing from the incident . and gregg wallace the incident. and gregg wallace is facing further complaints after stepping down from masterchef amid allegations of inappropriate sexual comments over 17 years. last night, the tv presenter thanked fans for their support after 13 people, including broadcaster kirsty wark, made claims accusing him of using sexualised language on masterchef in 2011. he has now also been accused of making

lesbian jokes and highly inappropriate comments by other people who claim to have worked with him. production company bannau uk says it's launching an external review , with wallace external review, with wallace fully cooperating during the investigation. his lawyers insist the claims are entirely false . those are the latest gb false. those are the latest gb news headlines . news headlines. >> now it's back to miriam for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts . code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome to dewbs& co with me , >> welcome to dewbs& co with me, miriam cates, and joining me until 7:00. i've got my panel, conservative peer and opposition front bench spokesman on transport lord daniel moylan, and also broadcast journalist judnh and also broadcast journalist judith da silva. as always, i want to know what you think. so please do get your views in

@gbnews dot com forward slash yoursay. well, the big news today. earlier this afternoon, mps voted in favour of a bill to legalise assisted suicide. although the legislation still has to pass through several more parliamentary stages in principle it will soon be lawful for doctors to prescribe drugs to terminally ill patients that will prematurely end their lives . will prematurely end their lives. supporters of the bill claim that this will mean an end to the unbearable suffering that many dying people endure. but opponents fear that vulnerable people will be coerced into suicide, and that the law will inevitably be expanded , as it inevitably be expanded, as it has in other countries, to include people with eating disorders, mental health conditions and even children. so let's have a listen to the bill's sponsoring mp, kim leadbeater. >> well, it's failing people and where that is the case, we have a duty to do what is right to fix it. and let's be clear, we are not talking about a choice between life or death. we are talking about giving dying people a choice of how to die in those situations where pain simply cannot be managed. the result is deaths , which are so

result is deaths, which are so horrific that the person themselves can spend hours and in some cases, days in unimaginable pain as they die. and for their loved ones, no matter how many joyful and happy memories they have , they also memories they have, they also have the trauma which comes from watching someone you love die in unbearable agony and fear. if this bill were to become law, it contains the most robust and strongest set of safeguards and protections in the world, and i struggle to see how it is fair or just to deny struggle to see how it is fair orjust to deny anyone the or just to deny anyone the autonomy, dignity and personal choice that we might want to take control of our final weeks and the right to choose does not take away the right not to choose. >> well, that was kim leadbeater, who has brought this private member's bill and giuditta. i think you support this in principle, but there are lots of mps who say they do support the principle of choice to die at the end of life, but didn't back this bill because they didn't believe the safeguards were adequate. what do you say to that? >> i disagree with that because

i think it has gone it has made strides to mitigate any potential disasters that people have presented thus far. you have presented thus far. you have to be 18 or over. you have to have your mental state verified by two two doctors. you go through two sessions of actually getting a sign off on your request, and you have to have a prognosis where you will die anyway within six months. so you're in a circumstance where you're in a circumstance where you know what, what is going to. what is what the future holds for you, which is not pleasant . for you, which is not pleasant. and at a point where you still have the capacity to say, let me go while i'm still myself, let me have a goodbye with my family, that is dignified. you should be granted that because i don't understand why the government and other people with platforms or stakeholders say that they would rather lend more credence and more consideration to what might happen as opposed to what might happen as opposed to the what ifs. instead of focusing on what is because somebody, somewhere, somehow might misuse the law. >> but unfortunately it's not hypothetical, because we know that in other countries where this has been law for some time,

there's very strong evidence in canada, for example, that people are coerced into this, that people are choosing assisted suicide because they can't afford care costs. what makes you think that this bill, which isn't actually as strong as ledbetter has said, for example, doctors can suggest to patients under this bill that they might want to kill themselves. they can't do that in australia, for example. what makes you think that it won't be abused? >> i think if a doctor suggested that they would be called into question, they're allowed to under the bill. but i think that thatis under the bill. but i think that that is something that that's a point that i think should be negotiated. because if a doctor leans in