Exclusive: Musicians and MPs say banning tests for harmful pills without onerous licence puts festival-goers at risk

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

In a letter to Suella Braverman the DJ, alongside the 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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