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What happens when the government decides you should die?

27 April 2018

1:49 PM

27 April 2018

1:49 PM

There is currently no greater example of a government that has become too big for its people, than the case of Alfie Evans.

Alfie, the 23-month-old at the centre of the British health system debacle, is thought to have a neurodegenerative disease, which National Health Service doctors believe he will not recover from and have refused to provide further treatment.

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