Exclusive: in 2018 the then prime minister barred expert from drugs advisory panel
Theresa May has been accused of breaking the code for public appointments as prime minister after it emerged that she blocked the appointment of a drugs expert to the Home Office’s drug advisory panel because he had been critical of the scale of NHS cuts.
The individual, who does not wish to be named, was barred from the Advisory Council of Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) after he co-signed a letter claiming that the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt was “gaslighting” public health workers.
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