Anna Soubry has given a wonderfully colourful interview to The Times today about her new job as Health Minister. The Conservative MP jumps through the usual hoops of having to talk about how she loves wearing high heels but doesn’t enjoy baking cupcakes, but she also makes a number of striking comments about health policy.
The most-widely-picked-up have been her comments on euthanasia. She told the newspaper:
‘The rules that we have about who we don’t prosecute allow things to happen but there’s a good argument that we should be a bit more honest about it.’
Norman Lamb appeared on Sky News this morning to say he also felt there was good reason to look at reform of assisted suicide laws. It’s interesting that two new junior ministers are leading the debate on this: Jeremy Hunt has thus far been rather quiet about his new job.
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