Labour planned while in opposition how to introduce assisted dying via a private member’s bill, suggesting that would still allow “heavy influence” for the government in the process, a leaked document has revealed.

The document, seen by the Guardian, proposed a change strikingly similar to the private member’s bill put forward eventually by the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater – to limit the change in the law to those who are “mentally competent, terminally ill and have a prognosis of less than six months left to live”. I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords’ filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered | Dave Sowry Read more

The leak will raise fresh questions over how much government control there has been behind Leadbeater’s bill and comes ahead of a major battle in

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