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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.A Conservative MP who was famously tricked into condemning a made up drug called “Cake” has been put in charge of scrutinising the Government’s new drugs policy.
David Amess appeared on the satirical television programme Brass Eye in 1997 where he was filmed referring to Cake as “a big yellow death bullet”.
As a result of the encounter he asked ministers a real life question in Parliament about the made up drug.
It was announced this week that Mr Amess will chair the bill committee for the Government’s Psychoactive Substances Bill.
He will co-chair the committee with another MP, George Howarth.
The new bill seeks to ban the recreational use of legal highs, including laughing gas.
In the programme, 'Cake' was described as "a new legal drug from Czechoslovakia" - similar to those banned by the real-life 2015 bill.
Public bill committees scrutinise the passage of new laws and take evidence about...
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