Blair Drugs Interview

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15th Wednesday May 2002

This is a small abstract from the long winded interview from

Mr Blair and BBC 2's Newsnight    

Drugs 'failure'

In the first of three BBC Newsnight interviews to mark five years of Labour in power, Mr Blair also admitted that Britain's drugs policy - in common with that of other European countries - was failing.

"I would certainly be prepared to concede that drugs policy is not working," Mr Blair said.

He gave his backing to a pilot scheme making bail conditional on entering a drug rehabilitation programme.

But he categorically ruled out the decriminalisation of any illegal drugs

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