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Yeo Admits Using Drug

Evening News, Norwich

Tuesday 10 Oct 2000

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Website: http://www.norfolk-now.co.uk/



The Conservatives faced fresh embarrassment over their drugs policy
today after an eighth shadow Cabinet minister reportedly admitted using
cannabis - and said he enjoyed it.

Tory Agriculture spokesman Tim Yeo's reported comments came after leader
William Hague spent yesterday attempting a dignified retreat from the
party's hardline zero-tolerance policy on cannabis.

Less than a week after toasting shadow home secretary Ann Widicombe's
plan for UKP100 fines for possessing even the smallest amount of
cannabis, Mr Hague admitted "concerns" about the policy and said further
consultation was needed.

And Mr Yeo apparently added to the disarray after becoming the first
senior politician of any party to say he had enjoyed the drug.

His comments followed similar confessions from Francis Maude, Archie
Norman and five other shadow ministers and Michael Fabricant, a Tory MP
sitting on the Home Affairs select committee over the weekend.


 

 

 

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