Prue Leith has said opponents of legalising assisted dying are ‘scaremongering’.
Judge of Great British Bake Off, 81 dismissed the notion that children with terminally ill parents would abuse the inheritance process to inherit earlier.
Despite Danny Kruger, Tory MP, being an opponent of the legislation, her son is not surprised.
Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith, 81, expressed her support for the Assisted Dying Bill in a letter to the Telegraph and said opponents of legalising assisted dying are ‘scaremongering’
Miss Leith sent a letter in which she expressed her support for the Assisted Death Bill. She wrote: ‘Opponents to the Bill fear that grasping children will coerce dying parents to get their doctors to see them off so they can inherit.
‘This is scaremongering. If someone is going to die within six months anyway, which must be the case to qualify for assistance to die, why would anyone risk prosecution to get the money a few months earlier?’ Her letter was sent to The Daily Telegraph.
The Assisted Dying Bill will receive its second reading in Parliament today. This bill would allow adults who are sound and have less than six months to live to legally request assistance to end life.
Her son, Tory MP Danny Kruger is an opponent to the legislation and chairman, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well, which campaigns against the reform
Kruger is chairman for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well. This group campaigns against the reform.
He previously wrote that the campaign for legalisation was being ‘outpaced by developments in palliative care’.
Yesterday, the Daily Mail reported that Tory peer Michael Forsyth, a Tory peer, had changed his mind about his opposition to the reform following a deathbed meeting with his father, who was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year.