Prue Leith

Bake Off star Prue Leith and her son, MP Danny Kruger, are appearing on Channel 4 programme Death Road Trip about assisted dying, but who is the…

14 years after his first attempt, Kruger was elected as the MP for Devizes in 2019 with a majority of 47.1 per cent. His first attempt at being elected as an MP, for Sedgefield in 2005, ended in him dropping out of the race after he controversially claimed he wanted a “period of creative destruction in the public services.” Kruger’s political career began in 2003, after being privately educated at Eton College and studying History at Edinburgh and Oxford, when he became a policy advisor for the Conservative Party.

Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith will debate and discuss assisted dying with her son, Tory MP Danny Kruger in Channel 4 documentary.

You can also catch up on All4. “I think the law should change. It will air from 9pm until 10pm. She continued: “Whereas, I keep saying to him, when you get to my age you speak about death quite a lot. There are something like 7,000 people who die in unrelieved pain.” [follows Leith](https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19889289.dame-prue-leith-opens-deaths-first-husband-brother/) and her son as they travel to Canada and the USA to better understand the topic.

Great British Bake Off host Prue Leith, 82, spoke to GMB ahead of her Channel 4 documentary on the subject of euthanasia with Danny Kruger, 48, ...

Dame Prue has had it written into her will that she would like to die by euthanasia while surrounded by friends and family if she is suffering, and if it is legal, after watching her brother David die and witnessing the affect of his illness on his wife and children. And what choice do they have?' They often face a horrible death every year.

Great British Bake Off host and her son Danny Kruger will explore the legalisation of euthanasia in a Channel 4 documentary.

The letter also said: “The prohibition of killing is the safeguard. The letter said: “The shift from preserving life to taking life is enormous and should not be minimised”. Conservative MP Lucy Allan said: “It’s not for Parliament to decide how the terminally ill manage their own death. [a terminally ill man lost his High Court challenge](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/terminally-ill-man-to-continue-to-fight-blanket-ban-on-assisted-dying-that-affects-thousands-of-people-a4292191.html) against the “blanket ban” on assisted dying. However, some form of assisted dying or assisted suicide is legal in at least 27 jurisdictions worldwide. The law is not working and we should change it.” It is also allowed in Victoria, Australia, and some US states. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are both illegal. In response to the petition, the Government said: “If the will of Parliament is that the law on assisting suicide should change, the Government would not stand in the way of such change, but would seek to ensure that the law could be enforced in the way that Parliament intended.” And what choice do they have? What is the Government’s position on assisted dying? They often face a horrible death every year.

Prue Leith and her MP son Danny Kruger have clashed over their opposing views about assisted dying.

He was just in incredible pain." She said: “It was the most horrible death. Prue is also patron of Dignity in Dying which campaigns for a change in the law. Continuing in her article for The Times, Li-Da explained her desire to adopt saying: “I feel I owe a child a chance since I was given a chance myself.” Prue added that her closeness with Li-Da is largely down to the fact that she keeps in regular contact. Prue and Rayne adopted her when she was just 16-months-old, and the family are “very close”.

Dame Prue Leith and her son, the Conservative MP Danny Kruger, will tonight (February 16) explore the legalisation of euthanasia in a Channel 4 documentary.

and nowadays, when I met John, I was thinking, do I dare text him… [Dame Prue Leith reveals heartbreaking reason she’s fiercely championing for assisted dying](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/07/prue-leith-reveals-why-shes-championing-for-assisted-dying-18237880/?ico=more_text_links) And how many children does she have? is that pushy, or not funny, why would he answer. [revealed that her former husband and her son’s father asked doctors for ‘assistance’ with dying](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/07/prue-leith-reveals-why-shes-championing-for-assisted-dying-18237880/) after suffering a long illness. [Great British Bake Off](https://metro.co.uk/tag/great-british-bake-off/) host is in [favour of assisted dying](https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/01/prue-leith-calls-for-assisted-dying-law-change-after-brothers-death-17680955/), while her son, the MP for Devizes is against it.

The Great British Bake Off and her son hold opposing view on the topic, which will they explore on Prue and Danny's Death Road Trip.

She is said to have bagged £200,000 from her Bake Off deal. She went on to open her restaurant, Leith's, in Kensington Park Road, west London in 1969. The pair had a son called Daniel and then adopted another child from war-torn Cambodia, Li-Da. The programme Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip, will air on Channel 4 at 9pm. Lieth was born on February 18, 1940 making her 82 years old. Prue married South African novelist Rayne Kruger in 1974.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Prue And Danny's Death Road Trip (Ch4) was relentlessly grim. This was a bizarrely flippant format for talking about a painfully ...

Instead, the show got bogged down in asking which barbiturates were most lethally effective and painless — a side issue. How can a law be framed that allows assisted dying but excludes the young? This one-off programme was unable to separate the logic from the emotion. It's easy to imagine, too, how attempts by teachers or parents to dissuade young people from assisted suicide could be decried as 'conversion therapy' and banned. But that's my emotional response to the arguments. Everything else in Prue And Danny's Death Road Trip (Ch4) was relentlessly grim.

The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith is embarking on a solo tour and has revealed why she wouldn't want to be a contestant on the famous baking show.

I'd been a caterer for a very long time and served lots of Prime Ministers, lots of fancy stuff - you think I could give The Queen a cup of tea.. Paul would probably win as he is a terrific baker, I started as a cook but I wouldn't like to go up against some of those bakers they are fantastic." Over the years Prue has cooked for royalty and Prime Ministers: "I once had to give The Queen a cup of tea and you would think that would be easy enough... and then he had just been on tour with Joanna Lumley so I asked Joanna what do you think and she said you should do it. and he said 'I think you should do a one-woman show' and that was four years ago and I thought no no no no... "He said it's 'absolutely knackering'.

The Great British Bake Off judge and her son - who is the Conservative MP for Devizes - sit on different sides of the debate.

Ultimately, in a discussion at the end the two decided to stick with their guns, with Dame Prue reaffirming, at the age of 82, her wish to die as she would like. Henry Morgan's Ghost (@henrymorganl) said: "Fascinating programme on assisted dying with Prue Leith. Conservative MP Danny is known for his outspoken views against assisted dying, expressing his fears at the end of the programme that ultimately, we "won't be able to write the law in a way that is safe". The programme proved to be a civilised look at a very sensitive topic. As once the door has been opened, it will be impossible to close it again. The [Great British Bake Off](https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/all-about/the-great-british-bake-off) judge and her son explored the provocative issue as part of Prue and Danny's Death Road Trip on Thursday (February 16).

The chef discusses the topic on her new Channel 4 documentary, Prue and Danny's Death Road Trip.

'Bake Off' star's son, Tory MP Danny Kruger, also fronts the new documentary programme.

Sarah Wooton, CEO of Dignity in Dying, wrote: “@PrueLeith spot on about the inequality in this debate: ‘I’m not asking Danny to have an assisted death. “Watching @PrueLeith’s thoughtful measured look at assisted dying,” wrote Dave Christie, a doctor. Kruger is a vocal opponent of it and has called instead for improvements to palliative care.