Opium shame of PM hopeful Stewart
HIGH OFFICE Rory Stewart revoking Article 50. The Tory said: “I think the country is going to face the ultimate choice which is leave with no-deal because you can’t negotiate a better deal or revoke Article 50.
“Now you’d probably revoke Article 50 after a referendum or maybe a general election. But that’s either go ahead with Brexit or don’t. And I can see that’s the looming choice for the party and the country and others.”
Mr Osborne also echoed A TORY leadership hopeful has apologised for smoking opium at a wedding.
Rory Stewart, who was Prisons Minister before becoming International Development Secretary, is the latest politician to admit to a drugs past.
Speaking of trying the opium pipe while in Iran, he said: “It was a very stupid mistake and I did it 15 years ago.
“I actually went on in Iran to see the damage that opium was doing to is successor as Chancellor, by warning candidates promising tax cuts or spending hikes to outline where cash will come from.
Meanwhile, it emerged Cherie Blair, wife of Labour former PM Tony, voted for the Lib Dems in last week’s European elections.
It came after the party expelled Mr Blair’s former spin chief, Alastair Campbell, for admitting he had voted Lib communities.” Mr Stewart, 46, a former tutor to Princes William and Harry, went on: “I’ve seen it as a Prisons Minister. It was something that was very wrong.
“I was at a wedding in a large community meeting and somebody passed this pipe around the room and I smoked it. I shouldn’t have, I was wrong.”
The incident happened during a trek from Iran to India before Mr Stewart became an MP. The confession comes Dem. Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti has now said that decision will be reviewed.
■ Former Energy Secretary Sir Ed Davey has entered the race to succeed Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader. He backs a second Brexit referendum and current deputy leader Jo Swinson is expected to be his only rival.
Mordaunt days after No10 rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, said he once drank a cannabis lassi.
Boris Johnson confirmed in 2008 he snorted cocaine at Oxford when he was 19 and smoked dope before that.
David Cameron, it was claimed in 2007, was in trouble at Eton after smoking cannabis. In contrast, Theresa May claimed the naughtiest thing she ever did was “run through fields of wheat”.