Rebecca Paul: Peers have no obligation to fix a Bill that is loose and broad by design

Rebecca Paul: Peers have no obligation to fix a Bill that is loose and broad by design

Rebecca Paul is a councillor and Conservative MP for Reigate.  The assisted suicide Bill has now completed its Second Reading in the House of Lords, where it will soon enter Committee stage, the part of a Bill’s passage where it enjoys its most detailed scrutiny. If ever a Bill required meticulous attention, it is one affecting matters of life and death. I was a member of the Committee tasked with line-by-line scrutiny of the Bill in the House o…