Kim Leadbeater’s amendment would replace decision of judge with an expert panel

MPs have suggested they feel misled by a major change planned to the assisted dying bill by its sponsor Kim Leadbeater, saying it could lose significant support.

One of the bill’s leading opponents, the Conservative MP Danny Kruger, said he believed the bill had the potential to lose its Commons majority over the change, that would see the removal of signoff by a high court judge and its replacement with an expert panel.