MC Bill in the Commons, April 3rd

Charles Moore, in the Spectator of 23rd April 2005, reported "Because of the election various Bills were dropped in the Parliamentary 'wash-up'. One that made it to the Statute Book was the Mental Incapacity Bill, which provides for certain types of euthanasia. I had dinner that night with an MP who had just voted against it.

"We've just voted tonight to be free to starve old ladies to death," he said. "If any of us did that to a dog, we'd be thrown out of the House of Commons."