UK’s longest-serving MPs issue joint plea for Commons to reject assisted dying bill

Diane Abbott and the Conservative Sir Edward Leigh, mother and father of the House, say law has been rushed

• Diane Abbott and Edward Leigh: Our politics could not be more different - but we're united against this bill
• Assisted dying: what are the slippery slope' fears in England and Wales?

Britain's longest-serving MPs, Labour's Diane Abbott and the Conservative Sir Edward Leigh, have issued a joint call urging the Commons to reject the assisted dying bill, arguing it is being rushed through and puts vulnerable people at risk.

Writing for the Guardian, Abbott and Leigh - the mother and father of the house - said there had been insufficient scrutiny of the law and urged parliament to instead focus on better health and care services.