After the Administrative Court (Toulson LJ, Royce and Macur JJ) had rejected the applications of the late Mr Tony Nicklinson and an anonymous claimant, AM, to allow doctors to end their lives without fear of prosecution, The Times reported that Anna Soubry, Conservative MP for Broxtowe and a newly appointed minister at the Department of Health, was supporting ‘the right to kill yourself’. She was subsequently supported in turn by her Liberal Democrat ministerial colleague Norman Lamb, who told the BBC that, though the issue was one for the individual's conscience and there was no Government policy on it, there was a case for looking at reform. The Ministry of Justice subsequently let it be known that there were no plans to change the existing law.