Senior opponents of assisted dying legislation have called on peers not to hold up the progress of the bill through parliament, warning there was a serious danger of the Lords losing democratic legitimacy.

Many supporters now admit the bill is in serious danger of running out of time in the Lords before the end of the parliamentary session, meaning it will fail to pass. They claim the slow pace of considering more than 1,000 amendments means the bill will probably run out of time for a vote.

In a letter to the Guardian , two former ministers, Justin Madders and Dame Nia Griffith, and another select committee chair, Debbie Abrahams, who previously opposed the substance bill have now urged peers not to deliberately filibuster it.

Just 80 of more than 1,150 tabled amendments have been cov

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