by Ben Clatworthy, The Times
The broadcaster and campaigner accuses peers of sabotage as the legislation is now almost certain to fall
Campaigners have blamed “religious lobbyists” and peers who tabled more than a thousand amendments for the now-inevitable collapse of the assisted dying bill.
Dame Esther Rantzen, who has been at the forefront of the campaign calling for a change in the law, accused peers and lobbyists of “absolute blatant sabotage” of the bill.
Under parliamentary rules the bill, which was narrowly passed by MPs in June last year, has to clear all its remaining stages in parliament before the current session ends, most likely in May, or it will automatically fall.
[…] She said: “It was always difficult because there were always lobbyists, particularly, I think, religious people who have their own beliefs, which mean that they would choose not to ask for assisted death and who want to impose those beliefs on people like me who don’t share them.”
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List of ‘religious people’ who could not support the bill
