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assisted dying, while Dame Prue has voiced her support, having <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/04\/10\/great-british-bake-off-star-says-brother-begging-die-20621864\/\">watched her brother, David, in agony<\/a> towards the end of his life.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest development, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill cleared the Commons with a majority of 23 votes on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the legislation could face a difficult passage through the House of Lords, with critics continuing to raise safeguarding concerns and poised to table amendments adding further restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed yesterday, Kruger, 50, was quizzed on having opposing views to GBBO star Dame Prue, 85.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tGet personalised updates on The Great British Bake Off\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p> Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox 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speaking in opposition to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, in the chamber of the House of Commons in Westminster, London. 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Photo credit should read: House of Commons\/UK Parliament\/PA Wire\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Tory MP Danny Kruger has been a vocal critic of the assisted dying bill (Picture: House of Commons\/UK Parliament\/PA Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There will be a series of criteria that a person must meet to be eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on BBC’s <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/newsnight\/\">Newsnight<\/a>, Kruger was asked whether being on opposite sides of the argument has impacted <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/06\/30\/prue-leith-reacts-to-tory-mp-son-danny-krugers-abortion-comments-16919833\/\">his relationship with his mum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>‘This debate actually has not broken any friendships for me at all, including of my own Party and certainly with my mum,’ he began.<\/p>\n<p>‘We seem to be able to disagree well on this.’<\/p>\n<p>‘I think these are very profound issues, both in conscience but also practicality,’ he continued.<\/p>\n<p>‘I regret my mum has not seen sense and come round to my point of view, but I understand why she hasn’t.’<\/p>\n<p>It was Kruger’s final statement that caught many viewers’ attention, with @dicofran on X calling it ‘condescending’.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/techteamhost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_143200269-49b0.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23472239\" alt=\"Prue and Danny's Death Road Trip Prue Leith and her son Danny Kruger Credit CHANNEL 4\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>He and his mother, Dame Prue Leith, have strong opposing views (Picture: Channel 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/techteamhost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_138166048-5ed5.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22937236\" alt=\"Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ken McKay\/ITV\/Shutterstock (13675342i) Prue Leith 'Lorraine' TV show, London, UK - 20 Dec 2022\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>The Bake Off star watched both her husband and son die (Picture: Ken McKay\/ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>‘Breathtaking arrogance towards Prue Leith’, slammed @JoBlandUnity.<\/p>\n<p>‘Massive man baby has a tantrum because a woman has her own point of view’, replied @ClaireDunkley4.<\/p>\n<p>‘How arrogant. Accusing his own mother of not seeing sense, because she doesn\u2019t share his views’, argued @NWomxn.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Tory politician said to Sky News that it is ‘impossible’ for the assisted dying bill to be ‘tight enough’.<\/p>\n<p>He said no one would need the option if the UK had ‘top-quality palliative care’.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets last night, he further accused assisted dying campaigners of being ‘militant anti-Christians’ who had failed to ‘engage with the detail of the Bill’.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dame Prue believes his attitudes would shift had he witnessed his ‘uncle die or his father die’.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/techteamhost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_144046593-0ff5.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23472238\" alt=\"Prue and Danny's Death Road Trip S1 Prue Leith and Danny Kruger\" loading=\"lazy\" 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And so he was really first crying, whimpering, moaning, then crying, then screaming, and then absolutely desperate.<\/p>\n<p>‘And the rest of the ward have to suffer it. The nurses have to suffer. 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