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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Fatboy Slim backs appeal to allow onsite festival drug testing

Fatboy Slim plays Glastonbury festival on Saturday.
Fatboy Slim plays Glastonbury festival on Saturday. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/Shutterstock

Fatboy Slim and a cross-party group of MPs have condemned the Home Office’s decision to effectively block onsite drug testing at festivals this summer as “shortsighted and dangerous”.

In a letter to Suella Braverman, the DJ, alongside musicians Billy Bragg and Olugbenga Adelekan of Metronomy has called for the government to allow the resumption of tests of confiscated pills in tents and temporary buildings at festival sites.

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