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Rishi Sunak's proposed smoking ban applies to the sale of cigarettes in the UK rather than the act of smoking itself. You currently have to be 18 or over to buy a pack of smokes.
Rishi Sunak's proposed smoking ban cleared its first parliamentary hurdle tonight as MPs voted by 383 to 67 to give their backing to the Prime Minister's plans.. The House of Commons this evening ...
Rishi Sunak today officially unveiled his bold plan to extinguish smoking in Britain through the King's Speech.. Under the Prime Minister's flagship proposal, which he himself labelled the ...
Although Sunak failed to show up for the vote, his successor as Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, was there - and voted against the ban. The result also exposed deep Tory splits on the issue, with 23 ...
Smoking plan ‘biggest public health intervention in a generation’, says Sunak But it is that word “ban” and the key question it raises that causes me problems.
Tobacco. Rishi Sunak To Ban Cigarettes for Brits The U.K.’s “conservative” prime minister wants to prohibit people born in 2009 and later from buying cigarettes—forever.
Rishi Sunak’s government has ditched the landmark smoking ban he said would transform future generations and save the National Health Service billions of pounds, after the prime minister’s ...
MPs have backed Rishi Sunak’s plans to create a “smoke-free generation” – despite a furious Tory rebellion over his smoking ban bill. The House of Commons on Tuesday (17 April) voted 383 to 67 in ...
Sunak’s smoking ban will be viewed in the same way, eventually. Yet many of his MPs are not interested in his legacy – or, remarkably, even that of their party after 14 years in power.
Rishi Sunak defended his ban on smoking after he said he has never had a cigarette. The Prime Minister this week pledged to raise the legal age to buy tobacco up by “one year, every year” to ...
The smoking ban Bill is expected to pass but it looks like Mr Sunak will suffer a Tory revolt over the plan. The Rwanda Bill debate should get underway in the Lords at about 4pm while the vote on ...
Rishi Sunak’s flagship smoking ban passed its first hurdle in the Commons on Tuesday, despite nearly half of Tory MPs failing to support the legislation.. Labour MPs helped push through the ...