It was difficult to read the reaction of Conservative MP Kit Malthouse to the news that yet another “assisted dying” Bill will be introduced into Parliament without thinking of Brighton Rock, the classic novel by Graham Greene.
Malthouse, the MP for North West Hampshire, assured voters on X that he stood foursquare behind the obsequious Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP for Spen Valley,who next week will bring forward a Private Member’s Bill at the wishes of Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister.The law that presently forbids doctors to kill their patients, Malthouse pontificated, “must change in the name of love” and suddenly, there in my mind was Pinkie Brown handing a loaded revolver to Rose - grooming, reassuring and misleading, always intent on death.
