UK: Embattled Pro-Death Health Minister Get Some Political Support

Embattled UK junior health minster Anna Soubry is getting some prodeathers support form one of her colleagues .

Minister calls for change on assisted suicide law

Another health minister has spoken out in favour of reforming the law on assisted suicide.

Liberal Democrat minister Norman Lamb joins colleague Anna Soubry in calling for a change in the law. more

UK: Government Under Pressure About Pro-Death Minister's Comments

In the UK, David Cameron’s government is starting to feel the pressure over last week’s pronouncements favoring assisted suicide by new junior health minister Anna Soubry. Developing .  . .

Tories play down Anna Soubry comments on assisted suicide

David Cameron is distancing himself from his outspoken new health minister Anna Soubry, who last week called for help to be given to terminally ill patients who want to end their lives.

Senior Tory sources said the prime minister saw no need for a change in the law or in legal guidance on the issue.

Soubry, a former barrister on the Tory left who joined the health ministry in last week's reshuffle, told the Times on Saturday that it was "ridiculous and appalling" that terminally ill people had to travel abroad to end their lives. more

UK Press Blasts New Pro-Death Junior Health Minister

Here’s a less than flattering piece on the UK’s junior health minister Anna Soubry, whose latest controversy involves her advocating for legalizing assisted sucide.

She's foul-mouthed and attention-seeking, but it's the new Health Minister's views on assisted suicide that are truly disturbing

Suddenly, a new ministerial shooting-star is born. Or should that be rather a new ministerial shooting-herself-in-the-foot-star, AKA David Cameron’s latest self-imposed headache?

Until a few days ago, the most likely reaction to the name Anna Soubry would have been: ‘Who?’

Ms Soubry is the Tory MP for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire. Brought up in the county where her father ran petrol stations until he went bust, Ms Soubry, a former TV presenter and union shop steward, has been divorced twice and brought up her two daughters as a single mother.

In last week’s government reshuffle she was appointed a junior health minister, and is said to be tipped for the Cabinet. more

UK: Calls For Health Minister's Resignation

Reaction in the UK to the newly appointed health minister’s call for supporting assisted suicide has been swift – this erupted last last week and already there are calls for her resignation.

Assisted suicide row Minister 'must resign' after she backs changing the law

Outspoken new Health Minister Anna Soubry faced a Tory call to resign after saying she backed changing the law on assisted suicide.

The former television presenter, who joined the Government in last week’s reshuffle, said it was ‘ridiculous and appalling’ that Britons had to ‘go abroad to end their life’.

Ms Soubry immediately came under attack from fellow Tories, with one warning that any attempt to change the law would be ‘fiercely’ opposed. more

UK: Pro-Deathers On A Roll

In the UK the pro-deathers are on a roll. Newly appointed health minister Anna Soubry has raised eyebrows by coming out in favor of assisted suicide, and the families of poster children for the pro-deathers have been quick to endorse these pro-death views.

Tony Nicklinson's wife welcomes minister's assisted suicide comments

Tony Nicklinson's wife has welcomed the willingness of newly-appointed health minister Anna Soubry to "stick her neck out" on the issue of assisted suicide law, but said reforms that restricted the measure to the terminally ill would not be enough. more