The Scottish boss of the record company behind Oasis has
attacked politicians as drugtaking hypocrites the day before
he and the band's songwriter, Noel Gallagher, mingle with Tony
and Cherie Blair at Number 10 Downing Street.

Creation Records boss, Alan McGhee, a selfconfessed former
cocaine addict from Glasgow, said he shared Gallagher's
contraversial views about society's attitudes to drugs and would
tell the Government this.

Gallagher caused a storm earlier this year when he said taking
drugs 'was like drinking a cup of tea,' and claimed MPs are
'bigger addicts than anyone else.'

McGhee, who spent time in a rehabilitation unit in Los Angeles
after a breakdown due to prolonged use of cocaine and ecstasy,
is a longtime Labour supporter who gave UKP50,000 to the party
before the election. He has been appointed as a Government
advisor on culture.

McGhee told 'The New Musical Express': 'I don't know if any of
them [MPs] take cocaine or heroin, but I bet you loads of them
drink alcohol, take temaepam to get to sleep, take Valium or
betablockers before they give a speech. The whole thing is
founded on total hypocricy.'

As advisor to the Department of Culture, drugs were one of the
issues he intended to speak out about, along with support for
the arts and the fight against music censorship.

'Being one of Britain's most celebrated cocaine addicts, I do
know the outcome of using drugs. There's noone telling the
truth about it.'

Today's Number 10 gathering is purely social so who can tell
whether among the smalltalk Gallagher and McGhee will
buttonhole Tony Blair with their views.