Article: You're looking for your Clause 4 moment, David ...this could be it; In a personal and provocative analysis, Mo Mowlam's husband argues that David Cameron should follow her example and come clean on drugs - and that it could be the Tory equivalent of Blair's greatest break with the past.

Byline: JON NORTON

CONSIDERABLE fuss is being made over whether the Tory leadership candidate David Cameron did or did not take drugs. It is made all the more piquant because of the possibility that it was not just cannabis but may even have included cocaine.

Most of us who have had adolescent children will not be surprised if he did.

Illegal drugs are freely available and have been for a long time.

I remember when my late wife, Mo Mowlam, first took responsibility for co-ordinating the Government's drug policy in 1999 as a Cabinet Office Minister. She knew then that she would face the same questions that are before David Cameron ...

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