内容摘要："But with recent changes to national insurance contributions on top of general inflationary pressures, the losses on these services have become unsustainable," he said.

"But with recent changes to national insurance contributions on top of general inflationary pressures, the losses on these services have become unsustainable," he said.

She said that despite the safeguards, the law could still be "open to a huge amount of abuse".Appearing on the same programme, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he was "uncharacteristically undecided" on the subject, but added it was a debate whose "time had come".

He also asked: "Is palliative care in this country good enough so that that choice would be a real choice, or would people end their lives sooner than they wish because palliative care, end of life care, isn't as good as it could be?"The issue has gained further prominence this year, partly because of Dame Esther's revelation that she had joined Dignitas, the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland.There was also the case of Antonya Cooper, a mother who admitted giving her terminally ill child a fatally large dose of morphine to end his suffering in 1981.

shortly before her own death earlier this month, in an effort to change the law on assisted dying.Speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, she said: "I totally loved him, and I was not going to let him suffer.

"It was the right thing to do. My son was facing the most horrendous suffering and intense pain, I was not going to allow him to go through that."

A bill to introduce assisted dying was last debated in the House of Commons in 2015, when it was defeated by 330 votes to 118."Our children were deprived of everything. They didn't have their childhood."

It is remarkable that these feelings were being shared so freely in a country where opposition was not tolerated; the secret police, known as the Mukhabarat, seemed to be everywhere and spying on everyone, and critics were disappeared or sent to jail, where they were tortured and killed.Across Aleppo, the new authorities installed billboards with the image of chains around two wrists saying, "Freeing detainees is a debt upon our necks".

"We're happy, but there's still fear," Samar said. "Why are we still afraid? Why isn't our happiness full? It's because of the fear they [the regime] planted inside us".Her brother, Ahmed, agreed. "You could be sent to jail for saying simple things. I'm happy, but I'm still concerned. But we'll never live under repression again".