CONTROVERSIAL assisted dying legislation is set to fail as peers try to make it run out of time.
The House of Lords has been accused of delaying tactics by making more than 1,000 amendments to the bill.
It will fail if it is not passed by the end of the parliamentary session in May.
Peers deny using the “filibustering” tactic and say they are scrutinising unsafe legislation.
Labour peer Baroness Luciana Berger said the legislation was “deeply flawed with swathes of issues of serious concern”.
Reform UK MP and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman welcomed the bill’s potential failure as “very good news”.
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But Dame Esther Rantzen, 85, who has lung cancer and is a supporter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, said: “This is absolute blatant sabotage.
“This is a handful of peers putting down 1,200 amendments not to scrutinise the bill — their job — but to block it.”
The bill would let terminally ill adults with fewer than six months to live apply for assisted death.
It passed by a majority of 23 in the Commons last June.
Jersey approved assisted dying laws yesterday.