Friday, 11 March 2016

Police chiefs among those calling to end the war on drugs

"If you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong." - Steven Soderbergh
 
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Of all the people you might expect to be leading a campaign to end the war on drugs, former police chiefs, soldiers and spies are probably not very high up the list. But our first piece today reports on a recent meeting in Parliament which showed that this is exactly the type of people calling on MPs to reform our drug laws.

Elsewhere, with zero hours contracts on the rise, the shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith, writes for Politics.co.uk on how the government's failure to tackle insecure work has left thousands of people not knowing what they'll be earning form one month to the next.

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