Leadbeater, the Labour MP who proposed the private member’s bill, has been defending the proposed new law
In her BBC Breakfast interview Kim Leadbeater also dismissed claims that, if her assisted dying bill gets a second reading on Friday, MPs won’t get enough time to consider the detail of it before it goes to the Lords. She said:
The bill has been out there for nearly three weeks now. [MPs have] been looking at it in great detail. And I think the sense is that people think the right thing to do is to pass the bill at second reading, which would then mean we would go into the committee stage in the new year, where there would be hours and hours and hours of scrutiny of the bill.
MPs have been doing consultations with their constituents, holding events, holding round tables, doing huge amounts of amounts of research into this really important issue, and I think the vote will be very close.
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