PM launches ten-year drugs plan amid claims of cocaine taking in Commons

Government to target ‘casual’ middle-class users along with addicts and dealers

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A ten-year anti-drugs plan being unveiled by Boris Johnson today has already been dismissed as a “backwards step” by campaigners.

The Sun on Sunday says the new plan amounts to an “all-out war on drugs”, with middle-class, or “lifestyle”, users of Class A substances to lose their passports or driving licences.The police will also be handed powers to go through drug dealers’ phones and contact their customers with warnings about drug use.

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