Balanced? He set his stall in the first paragraph when he referred to the bill as "assisted suicide".

To cast 1280 amendments as "scrutiny" beggars belief. For context, that is more amendments than were tabled for the massively complex, 855-clause Companies Act in 2006. And this wasn't a broad rebellion of the whole House. Over 800 of those amendments originated from just seven peers.

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Over 1200 amendments added – more than half by just a handful of members who are opposed to Assisted Dying under any circumstances. Not a single one made it to the voting stage. All were talked out. So yes it was a Filibuster.

It will be reintroduced in parliament's next session for sure.

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You'll have read (or heard) a lot of invective about the House of Lords role in obstructing the Assisted Dying Bill; certainly, many people are concerned that the un-elected element of our governing structure has obstructed a legal measure passed by the democratic lower house.

However, as Prof. Mark Elliott argues its not quite as simple as that (not least due to the character of the original bill).

His balanced view is worth a read.

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Its now clear the Assisted Dying bill has been talked out in the House of Lords & will fail to become law.

You may think this is because a small group fo Lords have sabotaged the process & essentially filibustered it into failing, or conversely they have provided scrutiny that was not fully achieved by the House of Commons...

But it now seems pretty clear the private members bill (which is not automatically carried forward to the next year) will have failed.

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h/t FT