It’s ridiculous that Michael Gove’s drug use could prevent him becoming Tory leader | Simon Jenkins

He is by far the most competent candidate. This hysteria is further proof that UK drug laws are in desperate need of reform

Britain’s Conservative party is having a nervous breakdown. It is turning on the most competent candidate for its leadership, Michael Gove, for sniffing cocaine in his former life as a journalist. Unlike his chief rival, Boris Johnson, who joked about his drug-taking, Gove told the sober truth. The jokester laughs, the honest man is a hypocrite.

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