Desperate Campaigners Lobbying Hard to Revive Doomed Assisted Suicide Bill
Dignity in Dying is actively lobbying MPs to revive assisted suicide legislation following a successful Private Members Bill ballot. The group is urging selected MPs to prioritize their bill over other causes that may lack the same level of support. Labour and Lib Dem MPs are reportedly facing significant pressure, while Conservative MPs have already expressed opposition to the initiative.
- ▪Dignity in Dying is applying pressure on MPs to bring back assisted suicide legislation.
- ▪A fundraising pitch emphasizes the urgency of convincing selected MPs to support the assisted dying Bill.
- ▪Labour and Lib Dem MPs are rumored to be under pressure, while Tories have opposed the initiative.
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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…
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