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Disability campaigner George Fielding, from the Not Dead Yet UK campaign group, said the bill "risks state-sanctioned suicide".

Fielding has been one of England's biggest areas for improvement, with six drops seeing them prematurely knocked out in T20 World Cup group stage and seven on day one of the Ashes Test alone.

"We already have several bids on it and some of them are in excess of the guide price," said Simon Fielding, of Fine and Country.

Though he didn’t utter a word, the chance to stand toe-to-toe with public defender Dan Fielding, played by actor John Larroquette, in front of a live studio audience was “unreal,” he told The Times.

The Telegraph's film critic Robbie Collin told BBC Radio 4's Front Row that was because Americans "don't care about Bridget" and that the character - created by British writer Helen Fielding - remains "an extremely local concern".