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

Kim Leadbeater, who is leading the campaign to pass the assisted dying bill, said some lords were trying to scupper it. Photograph: House of Commons/PA

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.