Who would trust Holyrood with legalising euthanasia?

Would you trust this lot with assisted dying? The Scottish parliament’s record on issues of personal liberty has been pretty dire. Yet MSPs seem mustard-keen to introduce medically-supervised suicide as proposed by the Liberal Democrat MSP, Liam McArthur. His Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, published today, is the third such Bill to hit Holyrood and the betting is that this one will go the distance.

‘Too often’, says Alex Cole-Hamilton, the Scottish Lib Dem leader. ‘Dying people are facing traumatic deaths that harm both them and those they leave behind.’ He’s not wrong, and the Bill has widespread public support according to opinion polls. Its many celebrity advocates, like Dame Esther Rantzen, hope its passage, next year, will pave the way for assisted dying across the UK.

So what could possibly go wrong? Well, in a legislature like Holyrood, with no revising chamber and a surfeit of virtue-signalling politicians, a great deal.