Campaigners urge MPs to vote down assisted dying bill over anorexia ‘loophole’

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Exclusive: More than 250 people who have suffered with eating disorders penned a letter to MPs warning: ‘If this bill had been law during the years many of us were struggling, we would have used it to end our lives’

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People with anorexia could be allowed to die by assisted death under a proposed Bill, more than 250 campaigners have warned, urging MPs to vote down the legislation when it returns to the Commons.

A letter to MPs, signed by 268 people who have suffered with eating disorders, warned: “If this bill had been law during the years many of us were struggling, we would have used it to end our lives.”