Rishi Sunak’s bold plan to phase out cigarettes and effectively ban kids born after 2009 from smoking sparked huge backlash today.
The Prime Minster unveiled the New Zealand-esque measure to great fanfare at the Tory party conference in Manchester, arguing it was the ‘right thing to do for our kids’.
If his proposed law is given the go ahead, the age someone can legally buy tobacco will raise from 18 by one year annually.
This will mean anyone 14-years-old and