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UK: Cameron smoked cannabis at Eton
Channel 4 News Sunday 11 Feb 2007 The Conservative Party has confirmed that leader David Cameron was disciplined for smoking cannabis as a fifteen year old at Eton. The admission comes in the wake of a report in this morning's 'Mail on Sunday'. The paper says that Eton College called the police in after suspicions that a number of pupils had been involved with the drug. As a result the teenage Cameron was confined to the school grounds - or 'gated' - for two weeks. A Conservative Party spokesman said: "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." During his successful bid to become party leader in 2005 Cameron was repeatedly asked about his drug taking past. He refused to be drawn, neither confirming or denying reports. But in a Channel 4 News interview towards the end of the leadership campaign, he finally denied taking drugs as an MP. In an exchange with presenter Alex Thomson on 21 October 2005, Cameron said: "I've always said law makers can't be law breakers. All I've said about my past though is what's private in the past should remain private." Thomson asked him: "If I asked you if you snorted cocaine as an MP you'd therefore say no, wouldn't you?" to which Cameron replied: "That's right, but please, I think we've dealt with this" The revelation about Cameron's school day cannabis use is contained in a book entitled Cameron: The Rise Of The New Conservative, being serialised in the Mail on Sunday. According to authors Francis Elliott and James Hanning, seven boys were expelled from Eton in 1982 after staff discovered that pupils were smoking and dealing in cannabis. Cameron was hauled in to see headmaster Eric Anderson after another pupil named him, and was made to confess to smoking the drug. http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=4588
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