Government accused of ‘quietly and wrongly’ backing assisted dying

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who proposed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, hugs a Dignity in Dying campaigner after the Bill passed its first test in the House of Commons in November (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

A Conservative frontbencher has accused the Government of backing a proposed law to enable assisted dying.

Shadow Commons leader Jesse Norman suggested on Thursday that supporters of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill had tried to “short-circuit the proper scrutiny of the legislation”.