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Ishmael Osamor, son of Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor, was sentenced to community service after being found with up to £2,500 worth of Class A and B drugs.

He works as a press officer in his mum's parliamentary office and also became a Labour councillor in Haringey last year when he was nominated by Kate after two sitting Labour councillors were controversially deselected.

The local Tories told the Daily Star Online “he should resign from Haringey Council immediately".

A spokesman for the Tottenham Conservatives blasted: “Cllr Ishmael Osamor represents West Green ward which has many social-economic problems.

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“Having admitted four serious drug charges involving Class A drugs, it is difficult to see how he can properly continue to represent that ward where there are so many drug related problems.”

Mum Kate has argued against the “failed” war on drugs during her time a Labour politician.

Ishmael avoided jail because the judge accepted the massive drug haul was for him and friends to use and a festival and not to sell for profit, Daily Mail reports.

According to the Daily Mail, his barrister said: “He made a mistake, he knows he is very lucky.”

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The politician, 29, was caught at last year's Bestival event in Dorset with 30.89g of ecstasy, 7.5g of cocaine, 5.7g of ketamine and 182mg of cannabis valued somewhere between £1,690 and £2,500, the newspaper says.

Mum Kate has been the MP for the local Edmonton area since 2015, after previously sitting on Haringey council, and nominated her son to be included on a shortlist after the deselections were pushed by pro-Corbyn group Momentum.

His grandmother is Martha Osamor, also a Labour politician and member of the House of Lords, who was nominated for a life peerage by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn earlier this year.

Ismael was already awaiting trial for the drug offences when he stood for election as a councillor and it is not known if he informed voters of his legal issues.

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Ishmael resigned his post as deputy cabinet member at Haringey Council Friday night but remains a serving Labour councillor and also keeps his job as senior communications officer to his mother.

Mum Kate has not declared that her employee is her son in Parliament's Register of Members’ Interests, which is a breach of the rules.

She has already run into controversy after copying large sections of former US President Barack Obama's 2008 victory speech when addressing constituents after her re-election as MP.

At a hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court last Friday, Osamor admitted to three charges of drug possession with intent to supply and a fourth of possession.

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Judge Stephen Climies sentenced Osamor to a two-year community order with 200 hours of unpaid work and up to 20 rehabilitation activity days, as well as ordering him to pay £400 prosecution costs.

The judge told the court: “I hope he appreciates he's very lucky. During unpaid work he will appreciate how privileged he is.

“He will end up rubbing shoulders with many who have serious addiction and drugs problems who will have had none of the opportunities he has had.'

He also told Osamor: “If this had been a case where you had been found in possession of those drugs with intent to supply for profit, you would be looking at between three and four years in prison.”

Last night a spokesman for Kate Osamor told the Daily Mail: “Ishmael has admitted what he did was wrong and apologised.”