A key supporter of legalising assisted dying has urged opponents to “stop all this smoke and mirrors”, as he suggested a rare parliamentary procedure could be used to get the contentious legislation through.
Former justice secretary Lord Charlie Falconer, who is sponsoring the Bill in the House of Lords, accused a minority of peers of trying to talk the Bill out of time, saying they “will not engage in detail” with the consequence that it is making slow progress through the upper chamber.
