- Former MP Crispin Blunt has pleaded guilty to four charges of possession of drugs, as he claimed he began going to chemsex parties to help inform government policy.
- The 65-year-old former justice minister admitted to four drug charges at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, following a raid on his home in Horley, Surrey, in October 2023.
- Mr Blunt was the Conservative MP for Reigate from 1997 until he was arrested in October 2023. He had the Tory whip removed and continued to sit as an independent MP and did not stand for re-election in 2024.
- Blunt was the parliamentary under-secretary in the Ministry of Justice for prisons and probation between 2010 and 2012, under the then prime minister David Cameron. He also served as chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2015 to 2017.
- The former Conservative MP was found to have been in possession of the chemical drug GBL, a sedative, as well as cannabis, methamphetamine and methylamphetamine, commonly known as crystal meth.
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