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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Assisted dying Bill process ‘thorough’ says MP as colleague brands it ‘a mess’

Supporters of the assisted dying Bill gathered for a press conference on Wednesday (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

An opponent of assisted dying has claimed a growing number of his Labour colleagues are “deeply concerned” at the Bill’s progress through Parliament as the MP behind it dismissed criticism of the scrutiny process as “utter nonsense”.

Kim Leadbeater said the Bill had been through an “intense” and “thorough” two months of line-by-line scrutiny, and had emerged from the process “even stronger, safer and more effective”.

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