Keir Starmer and Scottish leader Richard Leonard to back urgent drugs law reforms to save lives.The Labour Campaign for Drug Policy Reform (LCDPR), backed by 16 MPs and 4 MSPs, yesterday launched its drugs manifesto, which broadly back the reforms the Daily Record has been demanding.Many MPs are understood to be frustrated and angry at the Labour leadership’s slowness in getting behind plans to treat drug addiction as a health rather than a crime issue.The LCDPR calls for the Parliamentary Labour Party to:•Support an explicitly public health-based approach to drug use, moving away from a punishment-based model.•Support the introduction of drug consumption rooms, life-saving facilities that prevent overdose deaths.•Support the expansion of.
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