'Flawed' assisted dying Bill 'risks running out of time'

THE assisted dying Bill risks running out of time to become law, the Lords has heard amid a record number of suggested changes to the draft legislation.

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Peers yesterday began their first of at least four days of detailed line-by-line scrutiny of the Bill which could see assisted dying legalised for terminally ill adults in England and Wales.

More than 900 amendments have been put forward - the highest number ever tabled to a piece of backbench legislation.

The Dignity in Dying group, which campaigns for a change in the law, has warned “the risk of deliberate time-wasting is clear and profoundly unfair”.

But a number of peers told the debate they can only support Bills which are “legislatively fit to be passed” describing this one as “demonstrably flawed”.