At a fringe meeting at the party's annual conference in Brighton in 2006 Mr Davies, calling on the Lib Dem leadership to consider legalising all drugs, said the issue should be "looked at again". Mr Davies said at the time of Mr Clegg, then the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman: "I know from brief talks with him that he is mindful to do so, but I know he is mindful of giving ammunition to the opposition."