The gateway drug to politics?

Here are some other political figures of all persuasions who have made cannabis confessions.

• US President Bill Clinton admitted he tried the drug at Oxford University but famously said he never inhaled. Mind you, he also said he did not have "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky.



• Former cabinet office Minister Mo Mowlam admitted smoking the drug at university. The self-proclaimed "child of the 60s" said she didn't particularly enjoy it.



• London Mayor hopeful Boris Johnson told GQ magazine he had smoked pot - mainly before university. He also said he had taken cocaine.



• This year Tory leader David Cameron finally confirmed long-held claims he had smoked pot. He confirmed a Daily Mail report saying he experimented with the drug at Eton.



• Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who was fired in the most recent reshuffle, also admitted smoking cannabis while a student.



• Yvette Cooper, the minister for housing: "I did try cannabis while at university, like a lot of students, and it is something that I have left behind."



• Peter Hain, Work and Pensions Secretary: "I remember, when I was 19, someone trying to stick a spliff or whatever you call them into my mouth, angry that I wasn't smoking it."



• Francis Maude, former Conservative party chairman: "It was hard to go through Cambridge in the 70s without doing it a few times."



• Oliver Letwin, chairman of policy review: "Some friends put dope in my pipe. It had no effect on me but I was extremely angry."



• Lord Lamont, the former chancellor: "I have not smoked cannabis. But I did eat a tiny bit of cannabis cake and all I can say is I enjoyed the cake but that is all."

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