The great assisted-suicide stitch up

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was held on Tuesday .

The meeting was not the time for discussing the substance of the bill or its merits and demerits, but how the committee intends to collect oral evidence and whom it should call to provide it.

Labour MP Lewis Atkinson suggested that there should be at least some witnesses from these jurisdictions opposed to assisted suicide.

Atkinson insisted that we don't need to hear from people in other jurisdictions who were in principle opposed’, he insisted.

Atkinson helped to reinforce her strategy of silencing those who might raise inconvenient arguments or evidence.