Terminally ill say four-year timeframe for assisted dying service is too long

The assisted dying Bill is undergoing committee scrutiny (Alamy/PA) -

Campaigners have criticised a move to double the length of time before an assisted dying service would have to be up and running if a new law is agreed in England and Wales.

The proposed change, put forward by the MP behind the Bill, has been branded a “retrograde step” and “outrageous” by two terminally ill supporters of legalising assisted dying.