‘Cruel’ amendments are being used to thwart assisted dying bill, says lead MP

Lords' demand for 1,150 changes include many that are unnecessary' and likely to run down clock, says Kim Leadbeater

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Members of the House of Lords have proposed totally unnecessary" and very cruel" amendments to the assisted dying bill in an attempt to scupper it, the MP leading the campaign has said.

Kim Leadbeater said on Friday she believed that peers opposed to the bill were trying to block it by putting forward hundreds of changes, including one to film terminally ill people as they undergo an assisted death.