Danny Kruger: The major problem with the Assisted Dying Bill is not just assisting suicide – it's the Bill itself

Danny Kruger: The major problem with the Assisted Dying Bill is not just assisting suicide – it's the Bill itself

Danny Kruger is MP for East Wiltshire and shadow welfare minister. Two moments stick in my memory from the Assisted Suicide Bill committee, which I sat through with two dozen colleages for six long weeks earlier this year. The first is when Kim Leadbeater MP – after repeated pressing – confirmed that under her Bill someone could get an ‘assisted death’ for no other reason than feeling a burden on others. Later, Kim and her hand-picked committee …