Subject: UK: Mayoral Candidate Smoked Cannabis



Pubdate: Sat, 22 Jan 2000



Source: Times, The (UK)



Author: Stephen Farrell







MAYORAL CANDIDATE SMOKED CANNABIS



THE Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor admitted last night that

she, like Mo Mowlam, had once smoked cannabis.



Susan Kramer, 49, whose chances of winning the mayoral race are at 80-1,

told BBC Radio 4 Any Questions that she "certainly in university took the

occasional puff". Ms Kramer, a former banker, studied at St Hilda's College

and was President of the Oxford Union in 1971. Two months ago, Ms Kramer

said she had no skeletons in her cupboard. "If you are the mother of two

children, a wife and you have a more- than-full-time job you don't have any

time to get yourself in scandalous trouble."