Sacha Lord has said that home secretary Suella Braverman will have ‘blood on her hands’ over a decision to enforce licences for drug testing at clubs and festivals. The Parklife co-founder and night time economy advisor to Andy Burnham made the comments on a scathing post to Instagram.
It came after the Home Office said that the festival could not test drugs confiscated from festival goers, as it has done with drug testing charity The Loop since 2014, without a special licence.
Never before has a licence been necessary for the practice, with the festival organisers and The Loop having their own arrangement with local police. Speaking to The Guardian last week, Lord called the move ‘senseless’ and ‘a huge miss-step’ by the government.
