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Evening Standard
Politics
Rhiannon James

Sir Edward Leigh and Diane Abbott make joint plea to reject assisted dying

Sir Edward Leigh and Diane Abbott issue joint plea to MPs to reject assisted dying legislation (UK Parliament/PA) - (PA Media)

Parliament’s longest serving MPs, Sir Edward Leigh and Diane Abbott, have made a joint plea for colleagues to reject assisted dying legislation, and allow for more time to consider the “immense complexities” of the issue.

The Father and Mother of the House are expected to argue there has been insufficient scrutiny of the law in a letter published in The Guardian on Thursday.

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