Rachel Reeves said she would study proposals for assisted dying in the coming days, and believed there was enough time for scrutiny of the legislation. She said: “Like all MPs, I need to study the Bill ahead of Friday. It is a big decision, with wide-ranging consequences and so I will be doing that in the next couple of days. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Like all MPs, I need to study the bill ahead of Friday. It's a big decision with
00:06wide-ranging consequences and so I'll be doing that in the next couple of days.
00:10But I do think that the time allotted is consistent with actually ordinary
00:15government legislation and certainly with private members' bills. But like all
00:18MPs, I'll be considering the details in the next couple of days.