Mother: We 'need' MPs to vote for three-person babies technique

MPs will decide on Tuesday whether to approve proposals to allow the creation of IVF babies with DNA from three different people.

MPs will have a free vote at the end of a 90-minute debate on a controversial amendment to the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.

Vicky Holliday is the mother of a one-year-old daughter who has a Mitochondrial Disorder; she wants to have another baby using the kind of treatment that MPs are debating whether to legalise.

She told Today: "It's essential to us to have this (law) passed. If there's a technique out there which means we can eradicate mitochondrial disease to stop it being passed down to future generations then we really need MPs to vote for this".

However, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who will vote against the proposals, said: "It's important to be careful about terminology and precise about what is in fact happening: it's not a cure for disease, it's creating a new person".