Bridget Phillipson slammed her cabinet colleague Wes Streeting today after he openly criticised the Assisted Dying Bill. The health secretary has made two major interventions on Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s bill,

Wes Streeting “crossed the line” by warning that the NHS could not afford assisted dying without making cuts elsewhere, a Labour grandee has said. Harriet Harman, a former interim Labour leader, criticised the Health Secretary for wading into the debate when Cabinet ministers were told to remain neutral.

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.

Wes Streeting is a very clever man. As one of the government’s best communicators, the health secretary knows that when he speaks, people tend to listen. So when he decided to make an intervention on fellow Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill this week,

PM reiterates no pressure on assisted dying vote after Streeting criticised - Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been accused of crossing a line by stating his opposition to the assisted dying proposals.

The Education Secretary will vote against legalising assisted dying when Parliament has its say next week, deepening the Cabinet split on the issue. Bridget Phillipson suggested there were not enough safeguards in a Private Member’s Bill that will be debated and voted on by MPs on Nov 29.

Some big names, including the health and justice secretaries have said they will vote against proposed legislation on assisted dying, while the prime minister is yet to reveal how he will vote.