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Nicholas Cecil

Assisted dying bill MP in clash with Archbishop of Canterbury on 'slippery slope' claim ahead of historic vote

The MP bringing forward an assisted dying bill has rejected the Archbishop of Canterbury’s warning that the legislation would be a “slippery slope”.

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater believes a new law could be sufficiently tightly drawn to restrict it to applying to the terminally ill.

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