{"id":122003,"date":"2019-06-09T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/tory-leadership-hopeful-andrea-leadsom-admits-she-smoked-weed\/"},"modified":"2019-06-09T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T05:30:21","slug":"tory-leadership-hopeful-andrea-leadsom-admits-she-smoked-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/tory-leadership-hopeful-andrea-leadsom-admits-she-smoked-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory leadership hopeful Andrea Leadsom admits she smoked weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/205\/photos\/497000\/620x\/leadsom-weed-784304.jpg?r=5cfc270b30167\" alt=\"Andrea Leadsom says she smoked weed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HIGH: Andrea Leadsom says she smoked weed when she was at uni (Pic: GETTY)<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old said that while she was at university she dabbled in cannabis, but said shed never done cocaine or any other Class A drug.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing her drug use, the former leader of the House of Commons said: &quot;Everyone is entitled to a private life before becoming an MP.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I smoked weed at university and have never smoked it again since.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She is now the sixth Conservative leadership candidate who has said theyve done drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<\/p>\n<p>Environment Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/politics\/784156\/michael-gove-cocaine-drugs-prime-minister-conservative-leadership-boris-johnson-theresa-ma\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gove stunned people when he owned up to doing coke.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gove, 51, said he did it when he was working as a journalist early on in his career.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I took drugs on several -occasions at social events more than 20 years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At the time, I was a young journalist. It was a mistake. I look back and think I wish I hadn&#039;t done that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It came after International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, 46, was forced to apologise for doing opium.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed he smoked it at a wedding he attended in Iran 15 years ago, calling it a \u201cstupid mistake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/img\/static\/preloaderbig.gif\" alt=\"Michael Gove said he did cocaine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COKE: Michael Gove said he did cocaine when he was working as a journalist (Pic: GETTY)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/img\/static\/preloaderbig.gif\" alt=\"Boris Johnson said he did coke\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SUGAR: Boris J<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/politics\/784304\/andrea-leadsom-smoked-weed-michael-gove-cocaine-tory-leadership\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31%2BtnWR77%2BL.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">daily star<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGH: Andrea Leadsom says she smoked weed when she was at uni (Pic: GETTY) <\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old said th..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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