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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.

More than 900 amendments have been put forward – the highest number ever tabled to a piece of backbench legislation.

The Dignity in Dying group, which campaigns for a change in the law, has warned “the risk of delib

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