dec 24, 2023 - Calls for HS Cleverly to Resign

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The home secretary is facing calls to resign after making jokes about spiking his wife’s drink with a date rape drug at a Downing Street reception.

James Cleverly apologised for making the remarks just hours after the Home Office announced plans to crack down on spiking – putting drugs into another person’s drink or directly into their body without their knowledge.

But campaigners said his comments were likely to be “upsetting and triggering” to victims of spiking and sexual assault, and called for an overhaul of attitudes that normalised “banter” about date rape and coercive control.

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