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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Hon FRIBA (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer, and former journalist serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative.
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Boris Johnson rules out any change in law to allow Scottish drug consumption rooms to go ahead
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dailyrecord.co.ukdrugs death rates. At Prime Minister’s Questions the Tory leader dismissed any measures that would “encourage the consumption of more drugs” or “decriminalises the possession of drugs”.
Johnson closed down a plea to remove the legal obstacles that prevent drug consumption rooms seen as part of the problem to tackling deaths.Inverclyde MP Ronnie Cowan asked the PM to take into account the record number of drugs deaths recorded in Scotland.Figures released this week show total deaths rose from 1,187 in 2018 to 1,264 in 2019.
The annual death rate is now 3.5 times that of the UK as a whole.Deaths are up six years in a row, keeping momentum despite a massive 27 per cent jump in 2018.Cowan, who has campaigned for a radical overhaul of drugs.
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