Eleven lowlights from the assisted dying evidence session

To Westminster, where last week Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying bill began the evidence session of committee stage. But rather than provide much needed clarification about the scope of suicide bill, the three days of evidence sessions instead threw up even more questions about the safety of the legislation. After paying careful attention to the hours of hearings, Mr S has compiled some of the worst moments of the evidence sessions that left critics more concerned than comforted…

Who’s there?

50 witnesses were called to give evidence last week – and it quickly emerged that there was nothing like an equal split between bill backers and sceptics. In fact, as revealed by Dan Hitchens on Twitter, of those who took a stance on the matter 80 per cent were in favour of assisted dying – while just a fifth were opposed. More than that, of the Australians invited to talk to the panel, all were euthanasia advocates.