The potential candidate for replacement of Theresa May: I used cocaine, I wish I hadn't.

He said he used cocaine more than 20 years ago, at the time he worked as a journalist, which he felt was a big regret.

I took drugs in some social gatherings over 20 years ago. I was a young journalist at the time. It was a mistake. I think about that time and I wish I hadn't done it”, Grove said about Daily Mail.

The environment minister, who is also the candidate for the next prime minister of Great Britain, has said he hopes his move in the past will not be used against the intention to become prime minister.

I think all politicians had a life ahead of politics. Of course, when I was working as a journalist, I never imagined I would ever get into politics or public service”, he said.

“I've seen the damage that drugs can do to others, and for that reason I'm sorry for the decisions I've made”, said Gove, the BBC, broadcast Periscopi.

Conservative Party members must vote for a new party leader after Theresa May resigned from her post.

Gove served as justice secretary in 2015-2016, is one of 11 MPs from this party who have said they intend to stay in the race to replace May, while the winner is expected to be announced at the end of July.

And Secretary of International Development Rory Steaart, one of 11 Gove counter-Candids, has apologised for using opium considered A-class drugs in Britain, which he had done 15 years ago in Iran.

The party's third candidate, who claimed to have used cannabis while travelling to India, is Jeremy Hunt, the party's foreign secretary. /Periscopi