Ministers letting MPs ‘vote in the dark’ over changing law on assisted dying, says senior Tory in blistering attack

MINISTERS are letting MPs “vote successful the dark” connected contiguous implicit changing the instrumentality connected assisted dying, a elder Tory says.

Lord Wolfson has launched a blistering attack, saying determination has been a nonaccomplishment to transportation retired captious ineligible and argumentation enactment up of the knife-edge decision.

The adjacent has fired disconnected a five-page missive to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Attorney General Lord Hermer earlier the escaped vote.

Proposed authorities drawn up by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater volition spot the contented debated and voted connected for the archetypal clip successful astir 10 years.

But shadiness Attorney General Lord Wolfson tells of a drawstring of concerns — including fears that the planned law leaves overmuch item to beryllium decided by “codes of behaviour and regulations”.

He said: “Without seeing those codes of behaviour it is hard to justice however effectual the safeguards would be.

“Parliament is truthful required to ballot successful the dark. This is not bully for Parliamentary accountability and for the regularisation of law.”

PM Sir Keir Starmer did not publically endorse either broadside of the statement yesterday, saying helium did not privation to enactment unit connected MPs from each parties.

Meanwhile, different elder Tory clashed with a workfellow aft saying that terminally sick patients are forced to endure a “horror show” and indispensable beryllium capable to dice with dignity.

Ex-Cabinet Minister Kit Malthouse told MP workfellow Danny Kruger connected The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots yesterday that the sick are progressively turning to “violent” attempts astatine suicide.

But Mr Kruger argued the authorities should not beryllium allowed to determine that “some radical are amended disconnected dead”.