Terminally ill Britons may view Scotland as having a “more positive climate” for assisted dying and could “move accordingly”, if legislation is passed by Holyrood, an expert said.

Dr Claudia Carr, an academic specialising in medical law and ethics at the University of Hertfordshire’s law school, has been studying bills to introduce the practice in both Scotland and England and Wales.

She believes differences between the proposals being put forward at Westminster and Holyrood could see terminally ill people from England and Wales choosing to travel to Scotland to take advantage of medical help to die.

Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, who has brought forward the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, insisted it was “highly unlikely” that a patient would want to go

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