The government commits to reforming the Mental Capacity Act

I said that Fiona Laskaris would succeed in changing the law that prevented her from saving her autistic son Christopher from murder in my maiden speech. Tonight, on national ITV news, Wes Streeting the Health Secretary confirmed that the Mental Capacity Act will indeed be reformed. ITV also broadcast another family devastated by the acts failings. Thank you to Jeremy Hunt, Jake Richards MP and Hilary Benn for all their support, as well as incredible ITV journalists Romilly Weeks and Elisa Menendez. Thanks to the ferocious determination of one grieving mother if in ten, twenty or thirty years time if another little boy or little girl is born in Christopher’s circumstances they might avoid Christopher’s fate.

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Christopher Laskaris was autistic and murdered aged 24. I pledged in my maiden speech that his mum Fiona would change the law that prevented her from saving his life.