Test and Refine

At Second Reading in the House of Lords, the speeches on the Assisted Suicide Bill were heavily against it.

As that Bill's committee stage begins tomorrow, there is no convention that that House should pretty much wave through even a Private Member's Bill if the Commons had already passed it.

A record 942 amendments have been tabled, more than half of them by seven Peers. If this is not what they are for, then what is?