Concerns are mounting among MPs regarding support for assisted dying legislation, with reports that up to 30 members may reconsider their backing. Influential factors include a harmful social media environment impacting perceptions and a growing number of proposed amendments, totaling over 200. Some committee members fear insufficient time to adequately assess these amendments, raising doubts about future readings of the bill. This situation suggests a wider trend of reconsideration among parliamentarians, highlighting the precarious nature of legislative support in politically charged contexts.
One Tory source said they believed at least five Conservative MPs who had supported the bill at the last vote were likely to withdraw support at the next parliamentary stage.
A Labour MP on the committee said they were extremely concerned about the pressure its members were under, blaming a toxic social media environment in the aftermath of public hearings about the bill.
Another member said they were concerned quite a lot of the second reading support would melt away, and that the bill could fall at its third reading.
There is a danger of some people allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good, and there will never be a perfect bill.
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