Personally I don’t think it generally matters what politicans do in their private life as long as it does contradict what they say in their public life. So Major’s back to basics morality was shown up by his cabinet ministers at the time and later in hindsight by himself!

However see how Clinton had the same grilling over whether he took drugs. Apparently he did but famously he didn’t ‘inhale’! And to see the US gridlocked for ages over a silly affair - Monica Lewinsky was rather pointless. Of course Bush was also in his time a notorious hell-raiser and he also dodges questions about drugs.

And as our leaders are human - why should they have any regrets if they did take any drugs? Saying sorry over things you did when you was younger just to make you more electable and to ’set an example’ - is disingenuous.

Maybe any potential leaders should sign a form promising that they have never doing anything remotely illegal like go over the speed limit, park on a double yellow line or heaven forbid, smoke a joint.