A law that would make assisted suicide legal for terminally-ill people in Scotland is a “danger” to the disabled, according to the first Member of the Scottish Parliament to use a wheelchair full-time.

Pam Duncan-Glancy, who represents Glasgow for Labour, raised concerns over the definition of “terminally ill” in new proposals.

She told the BBC’s Debate Night programme: “You start to question what’s terminally ill. How long do you need to be terminally ill? How terminal does it need to be to be ill? You’re looking at a backdrop of a situation in society where disabled people are so far from any kind of equality whatsoever, that there is no safeguard I believe that can be put in any bill.” She added: “I have said this [bill] is a danger.”