Dame Prue Leith has called for “compassionate and gentle assisted death” to be legalised in the UK as figures showed the number of British members of Dignitas has soared by more than 80% in the past decade.
The Great British Bake Off judge, who has been outspoken on the issue of choice for terminally ill people, described the current law as presenting only the “grim” options of “suffering, suicide or Switzerland”.
