Kim Leadbeater outlines safeguards in proposed assisted dying bill – video

A bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales will set out hardline safeguards, including lengthy prison sentences for coercion and powers for judges to cross-examine patients.

The Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said she believed she had put forward 'the best possible legislation' and told wavering MPs that parliament may not get a chance to vote again on the issue for another decade. She pledged it would contain the 'strictest protections and safeguards of any legislation anywhere in the world' amid growing concerns from some MPs over the potential for mission creep and coercion

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