Widdecombe: No evidence for research

Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe says she believes there has been no new evidence put forward on the necessity for embryology research since the first embryology act came before parliament in 1990.

The Maidstone and the Weald MP made her comments on Channel 4's 'News at Noon' as MPs prepared to debate and vote upon the human fertilisation and embryology bill.

She said: "There is no evidence at all that this will save millions of lives. This is what we were told 18 years ago when embryology was first legalised in this country. 18 years later, 2.2 million embryos later, there haven't been any cures.

"And yet there have been lots of advances and cures from adult stem cell research and recently a lot of advances from umbilical cord tissue."