Rishi Sunak today formally announced bold plans to ban today’s children from ever being able to buy cigarettes, despite a Tory revolt over his ‘illiberal’ smoke-free ambition.
If the law is eventually given the go ahead, kids born after 2009 will never legally be able to buy tobacco.
The Prime Minister has argued he is building ‘a better future for our children’. Health campaigners, experts and charities have all commended the move, described as the ‘biggest public health intervention in