The Labour MP leading the campaign to legalise assisted dying has criticised Wes Streeting for “very vocally” opposing the move. Kim Leadbeater said the Health Secretary’s repeated public comments against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill were “quite disappointing and quite upsetting”.

The Health Secretary has said he is against a change in the law to allow terminally ill people to be given assistance to end their lives.

Speaking on the latest episode of the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Harriet Harman suggested Wes Streeting's arguments against assisted dying were contradictory.

Infighting has broken out in Labour after Wes Streeting made yet another high-profile intervention opposing the forthcoming assisted dying vote. The Health Secretary has become the most vocal and most senior voice in the Labour Party arguing against MPs backing Kim Leadbeater’s Private Members' Bill.

The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

I’m disappointed that the health secretary came out to speak about the bill before he had even seen the bill,’ says Kim Leadbeater