To the surprise of zero people familiar with his tenure at the Crown Prosecution Service, Sir Keir Starmer recently admitted his support for assisted dying. The not-so-shocking revelation was made in the Labour leader’s phone call with broadcaster and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen – who has expressed her own wish for an assisted death following stage IV cancer diagnosis.
Now, Rishi Sunak has also told journalists he is “not opposed” to assisted dying in principle. It seems, whatever crop of MPs wind up on the Commons benches on 5 July, our physicians’ duty to offer the “utmost respect for human life” could soon be turned on its head.
