'Expect 200,000 annual euthanasia deaths in five years if Meacher Bill goes through', warns Catholic MP

More than 200,000 people will die by euthanasia or assisted suicide within five years of a change in the law, a Catholic MP has predicted.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Sir Edward Leigh, the MP for Gainsborough, said a law on “assisted dying” would follow the same trajectory as the 1967 Abortion Act.

He said that any safeguards attached to the Assisted Dying Bill of Baroness Meacher, which will received its Second Reading in the House of Lords on October 22, will soon prove worthless.