Rushed law

Jan 23, 2025 by

by Janice Turner, The Times:

I’m watching the progress of the assisted dying bill closely. My views on this issue balance on a delicate scale. At its first reading I was 55-45 in favour, assuming the committee stage would be an open and free thrashing out of objections, driven by a heartfelt, cross-party desire to create a law that is both safe and humane.

But everything I read about the conduct of Kim Leadbeater’s committee is dismaying, from the mainly inexperienced MPs chosen to represent the anti side, to an initial vote against taking evidence from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, despite the insight it might have into coercion of the terminally ill. Too time-consuming, it was argued. But this is the most momentous law in a generation. There should be all the time in the world.

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