The UK’s two longest-serving MPs and who come from the country's two main opposing parties have united to oppose the new Bill to legalise assisted suicide, which is due to be debated in Parliament next week.

In a co-authored and impassioned opinion piece for the Guardian, Diane Abbott and Edward Leigh highlight numerous flaws in the Bill as well as the risks it poses to the most vulnerable in British society.

The striking joining of voices from polar opposite ends of the political spectrum – Abbott is a member of the Labour Party and a prominent voice for its more Left-leaning elements, while Leigh is a member of the Conservative Party and a traditional Catholic – is captured in the Guardian's title choice for the article: "Our politics could not be more different – but we’re united against this dangerous assisted dying bill".