Former MP pleads guilty to four charges of drug possession
Former Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has pleaded guilty to four charges of possession of drugs including cannabis and crystal meth.
The 65-year-old former justice minister served in David Cameron’s government as parliamentary under-secretary of state for prisons and youth justice from 2010 to 2012, and went on to chair the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2015 until 2017.
Blunt, who represented Reigate in Parliament between 1997 and 2024, made his guilty plea at Westminster Magistrates’ Court this morning.
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