LABOUR last night backed Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban – and it seems even Angela Rayner has ditched the fags.
The deputy leader was spotted discreetly puffing on a vape at the party’s conference yesterday.
Jeremy SelwynLabour’s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner was spotted puffing on a vape[/caption]
Jeremy SelwynRayner has previously been seen smoking cigarettes but now seems to have kicked the habit with the help of a vape[/caption]
She has previously been caught taking a cheeky drag of a cigarette but now appears to have kicked the habit.
Yesterday Rachel Reeves said the party supported the Tories’ plan to abolish smoking.
But she added: “However, I do fear for the Conservative Party.
“With such a shortage of fag packets, what on earth are they going to write their next policy on?”
Rishi Sunak is mounting an historic crackdown on cigarettes by raising the legal age every year until there are no smokers left.
He said: “We must tackle the single biggest entirely preventable cause of ill health disability and death.
“And that is smoking, and our country. Smoking causes, one in four cancer deaths.”
He said his plans would mean a 14-year-old today will never legally be sold a cigarette.
The tough new anti-smoking measures would see the smoking age increased by a year every year to eventually make it illegal for anyone to buy cigarettes.
Mr Sunak said the ban would be subject to a “free vote” in Parliament, meaning MPs will not be told how to vote by party enforcers.
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