16-04-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com

Truss claims ‘health police’ will push for other bans if smoking rules change – UK politics live

Former PM tells debate that plans to phase out smoking are ‘emblematic of a technocratic establishment in this country that wants to limit people’s freedom’At 12.30pm a transport minister will respond to an urgent question in the Commons tabled by Labour on job losses in the rail industry. That means the debate on the smoking ban will will not start until about 1.15pm.Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, is one of the Britons speaking at the National Conservatism confer
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