What are MPs actually debating today? Some of them seem a bit confused. We have had two hours so far of the debate on the second reading of Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, and a number of them seem to be talking about entirely different things. Some are poring over the detail of the legislation, with Leadbeater pointing to the safeguards she has had written into it, and Danny Kruger arguing that some of the definitions of the people who can act as a proxy for patient are too loose, meaning that there is still a risk of abuse of the legislation. But then, there have been others who have wanted to argue about the principle of the legislation, rather than what is written in it.
A classic example came from Layla Moran, chair of the health select committee. She is in favour of the bill, though didn’t want to talk about it in detail.
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