My position was always that I was supportive of the issue in principle, but I would need to have assurance that the safeguards were robust and were appropriate and will protect vulnerable people.
Clarifying her stance on the need for safeguards in assisted dying legislation.
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We are elected as MPs to deal with some of those difficult issues, to have those difficult conversations. We aren't elected to do the easy things.
After giving the matter a great deal of thought, I will be reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
It's all about giving people a choice, and so I absolutely know that I'll go through a process that Kim's gone through, probably even worse, but that is a small price to pay for what I hope to be able to do, which is introduce this…
I believe it is a fundamental democratic principle that the elected chamber, the House of Commons, should decide what does and does not become law in this country.
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