PROPOSALS to introduce a new assisted dying law are being pursued with “indecent haste” and risk pressuring “vulnerable people to end their lives,” campaigners warned today.

The remarks were made after Labour MP Kim Leadbeater unveiled her private member’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill today.

Covering England and Wales, it would allow assisted dying for those with less than six months to live if signed off by two doctors and a High Court judge — “layers of safeguards” Ms Leadbeater argues would “probably make it the most robust piece of legislation in the world.”