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UK: Cameron faces cannabis allegations
inthenews.com
Sunday 11 Feb 2007 David Cameron smoked cannabis while at high school, a new biography has claimed. Today's revelations about the Conservative leader's alleged misbehaviour as a schoolchild come in a biography by journalists Francis Elliott and James Hanning published in the Independent on Sunday newspaper. The book cites contemporaries of Mr Cameron claiming that the 15-year-old Conservative leader-to-be was disciplined for smoking cannabis after confessing his misdeed to teachers. Conservative party officials are maintaining the line which Mr Cameron has always maintained about his life prior to his entry into politics. Questioned on drug use in 2005, the Tory leader said: "I'm allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and we do things that we should not and we are all human and we err and stray." Responding to today's news a Conservative party spokesperson reiterated this position, saying: "This happened almost 25 years ago and David has always maintained that politicians have a right to a private life before they come into politics." Political analysts have said that traditionalists within the Conservative party, already uneasy with their new leader's liberal-leaning agenda, will frown upon the 40-year-old. Party grandee Lord Tebbit told BBC News yesterday that although disapproval was to be expected, he believed transgressions made while still a teenager should not prevent politicians from achieving high office. "I think we have to take a reasoned view about these things, and the question now is whether or not he understands it is a highly dangerous drug and should be treated as such," Lord Tebbit said http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/politics/cameron-faces-cannabis-allegations-$1051107.htm
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