Keir Starmer may become our next prime minister. In 2010, in his role as Director of Public Prosecutions, he issued guidelines concerning which cases of assisted suicide were more likely and which less likely to be prosecuted. Critics felt that this was a camel’s-nose-under-the-tent strategy, through which assisted suicide would be normalised in some cases because it would be known in advance that such cases – where the suicidal person had a clear and settled intent to self-terminate – were unlikely to be punished by the law. Starmer at the time assured the public that he was not challenging the law prohibiting assisted suicide: he stressed that the changes made were limited to guidelines on which cases were more likely to attract the attention of the DPP.
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