'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".