Controversial pro-assisted suicide pressure group Dignity in Dying has admitted it is applying heavy pressure on MPs successful in yesterday’s Private Members Bill ballot to bring back assisted suicide legislation in this session. A fundraising pitch says “we must do everything we can to make sure one of them chooses the assisted dying Bill” and “our team is working urgently… to convince the selected MPs”…
A spokesperson for a small charity who lobbied MPs to bring a PMB on an unrelated issue in the past told Guido:
“MPs near the top of the ballot have a choice: give in to the pressure of a controversial but powerful multi-million pound lobbying machine and hand over their Bill to them, or allow a small, perhaps local, cause who have no voice and who’d normally have no chance to change the law to bring forward a proposal that everyone can get behind.”
Labour MPs Lauren Edwards & Lib Dem MP Andrew George are the names rumoured to be coming under most pressure to bring back Kim Leadbeater’s Bill. Tories selected in the ballot have already set their face against another crack at it, will Labour and Lib Dems cave to wealthy lobbyists?
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”
