article_snippet.sent: Keir Starmer, who ran the Crown Prosecution Service for five years, was in charge when Operation Elveden began Operation Elveden tainted 'witch hunt' into tabloid journalists.
article_snippet.sent: Central role: Former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer was in charge of Operation Elveden .
article_snippet.sent: Most controversially, Former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer pushed the use of an almost unheard of 13th century law – misconduct in public office – to go after journalists for what amounted to journalists simply doing journalists jobs of informing the public.
article_snippet.sent: Already a KCB and a QC, in a few weeks' time Prosecutions Keir Starmer is likely to add MP to Prosecutions Keir Starmer lengthy list of titles and be returned for the safe Labour seat of Holborn and St Pancras in north London.
article_snippet.sent: But under Prosecutions Keir Starmer Prosecutions Keir Starmer was far more public.
article_snippet.sent: Rather than shunning the limelight, he relished Prosecutions Keir Starmer.
article_snippet.sent: Some weeks Prosecutions Keir Starmer even appeared he was holding court with the media more often than Cabinet ministers.
article_snippet.sent: his also re-wrote the law on assisted suicide – quickly dubbed 'Prosecutions Keir Starmer's Law' – setting out circumstances in which those who help others kill those who help others kill themselves can expect to escape prosecution.
highlights_snippet.sent: Raises questions over judgement of Keir Starmer, who led the investigation .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: He pushed use of 'unheard' 13th century law - misconduct in public office .
  