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

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Kim Leadbeater warns 1,150 Lords amendments are ‘unnecessary’ and designed to run down the clock

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 proposing hundreds of changes, including one that would require terminally ill people to be filmed as they undergo an assisted death.

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