FORMER PRIME MINISTERS UNITE AGAINST ASSISTED DYING BILL- Ex Labour PM Gordon Brown also opposes the bill
Three former prime ministers namely Boris Johnson, Liz truss and Theresa May have united against the assisted dying bill.
Ex Attorney general Dominic Grieve also says the bill would be blocked on several grounds by the European Convention on Human Rights , as he has warned that such a bill would breach the rule of law.
Mr Grieve and other government officers have warned MPs in a letter that such bill would have “serious implications” for the judiciary in the UK as it seeks to “overturn decades of legal convention
Mr Grieve who maintains that the bill does not contain the required safeguards has stated that decriminalising assisted dying would breach a state’s obligations if it did not come with adequate safeguards against abuse and coercion
Truss, who outrightly said the bill was wrong in principle, further added that the NHS and the judicial system should be protecting lives, and not ending them, as such law would be ripe for being exploited by the unscrupulous.
Truss also stated that MPs should vote the bill down and focus on improving health services.The bill Propagator, Ms Kim Leadbeadter who described her bill as the most robust in the world, said the bill onced passed, cannot be changed, adding that the title of the bill is intentionally ‘terminally ill adults’ only
