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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Assisted dying Bill risks running out of time to become law, Lords hears

Peers in the House of Lords are debating amendments to the assisted dying Bill (House of Lords/UK Parliament/PA) - (PA Wire)

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

Peers debated for almost five hours in their first of at least four days of detailed line-by-line scrutiny of a Bill which could see assisted dying legalised for terminally ill adults in England and Wales.

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