James Cleverly Apologizes For Making A Joke About Giving His Wife Rohypnol Every Night

Only hours after declaring a crackdown on spiking, James Cleverly has apologised for jokes about giving his wife a date-rape medication every night.

According to a newspaper outlet, the Home Secretary made the casual comments during a Downing Street reception, telling female guests that having “a little bit of Rohypnol in her drink every night” was “not really illegal if it’s only a little bit.”

Cleverly chuckled too, saying that the key to a long marriage was to make sure your partner was ‘someone who is always moderately sedated so she can never understand there are better men out there’.

After meeting Susie at university, Mr Cleverly and she went on to have two kids together.

Although it is customary for conversations at Downing Street receptions to be “off the record,” a newspaper outlet chose to defy this rule due to Mr Cleverly’s position and the nature of the conversation.

Mr Cleverly’s allies claimed that although he acknowledged the inappropriateness of his remarks, they were delivered in a private environment.

In the past, Mr Cleverly has referred to spiking as a “perverse” crime and stated that ending violence against women and girls was a “personal priority.”

“In what was always understood to be a private conversation, James, the Home Secretary, tackling spiking made what was clearly meant to be an ironic joke – for which he apologises,” a spokesperson for the Home Secretary said.

Senior Labour figures denounced the ‘appalling’ remarks made by Mr Cleverly.

Shadow minister for domestic abuse and protection, Alex Davies-Jones, stated: “It was a joke” is the most cliched justification out there, and nobody is buying it.

“A complete cultural shift is necessary if the Home Secretary is sincere about combating spiking and violence against women and girls.” ‘Banter’ must end, and it must begin at the top.

“Spiking is a disturbing and serious crime which is having a devastating impact on young women’s lives,” stated Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary.

‘It is truly unbelievable that the Home Secretary made such appalling jokes on the very same day the Government announced a new policy on spiking.

‘It suggests that despite being the Cabinet minister ultimately responsible for tackling violence against women and girls he doesn’t get how serious this is. Victims will understandably be questioning if they can trust him to take this vile crime seriously.’

This is just not good enough for someone in his role, and this is not good at all.

This was a terrible remark. Either he steps down or gets fired. This isn’t funny, and he needs to get into trouble, but then this is so typical of the Tories these days, and this was an extremely strange remark from a fool in authority.

He really does need to go after that comment, and for no other reason than he’s foolish. Are there any MPs with any common sense? And this nation is ruled by these awful people. Step down immediately.

Do these politicians use their brains to keep their ears apart?

The general election can’t come soon enough, but what decent person can do any better? And the current opposition is no better.

That pretty well covers the quality of Tory politicians; is it any wonder that Britain is in such disarray?

And I find this all very upsetting as a woman.

This was a completely absurd statement made by anyone, much less a Home Secretary. Why in the world hasn’t he quit right away or been fired by Sunak?