Peers clash with Esther Rantzen over plans to delay and change assisted dying bill

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The TV personality’s appeal for the House of Lords to not hold up Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying legislation has been met with scorn

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Dame Esther Rantzen has been told she does not understand how British parliamentary democracy works after she suggested that members of the House of Lords should not hold up the assisted dying legislation.

Kim Leadbeater’s bill passed by a narrow majority of just 23 on its final third reading vote in the Commons on Friday but now faces a long haul in the Lords as peers prepare to lay down hundreds of amendments.