How far will Starmer’s smoking ban go?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Patrick Gibbons speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews.
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| 0:27.0 | Hello Hello and |
| 0:35.0 | welcome to Coffey House Schultz, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by Katie Gores and Kate Andrews. |
| 0:42.0 | So Kia Stama's Europe trip continues in Paris as the Paralympics get underway. |
| 0:46.0 | But Katie, that hasn't stopped domestic plans from leaking. |
| 0:49.0 | There are reports that Starma will seek to extend the indoor smoking ban. |
| 0:52.8 | Could you tell us a little bit more about that? |
| 0:54.8 | Yes, this is a story broken by the sun and it relates to Ritchie Sunak's smoking ban, |
| 1:00.3 | which of course he never quite got over the line it was one of his big free |
| 1:03.8 | announcements at party conference and the plans for a smoke free generation as he |
| 1:08.1 | called it whereby if you were born at a certain point depending on when it came |
| 1:12.2 | in those under 16 would never ever be allowed to buy a cigarette, |
| 1:15.6 | as opposed to, you know, as opposed to, you know, bans whereby you raise taxes or try and put things off by birth some would just never be |
| 1:24.3 | allowed to buy cigarettes their sibling who says one week old not their sibling that |
| 1:28.2 | wouldn't work biology their friend who's one week older and my you know then be able to buy over they were in the |
| 1:34.8 | cutoff point and so forth now Ritchie don't did not put that in the washup when he called |
| 1:39.3 | the election but labor announced in the king's speech that they would be resurrecting the bill. |
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