Assisted dying bill has lost Commons majority now high court signoff abandoned, says MP– UK politics live In the Commons MPs on the assisted dying bill’s public bill committee have just started their line-by-line scrutiny of the bill.
9.25am: MPs on the public bill committee for the assisted dying bill begin their line by line scrutiny of the bill.
I don’t think it would have passed the House of Commons if this new system – which doesn’t involve a judge, it is involves a panel of people all of whom, presumably, are assisted to the principle of assisted dying, not an impartial figure like a judge would be – [was in place].
At that point the point was made very strongly that the principal safeguard for the bill, the way people could have confidence that it was going to be safe for vulnerable people, was that there would be a high court judge approving the application.
As Jessica Elgot reports, she wants to scrap the requirement for an assisted dying application to be approved by a high court judge, because the judiciary said this process would be too time-consuming and would clog up the courts.
