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Coffee House Shots

Why Sunak wants to ban vapes

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has outlined plans to ban disposable vapes, and is hoping to change vape packaging to make it less appealing to children. Why?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews. 

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0:00.0

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0:15.6

Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.

0:21.5

I'm James Heel.

0:22.2

I'm joined today by Katie Walz and Kate Andrews.

0:24.8

Now today the big announcement is Ritchie's plans to ban all disposable vapes.

0:29.1

Katie, what's the thinking behind this policy?

0:31.2

So this dates back to that time when Ritchie

0:33.5

student was depicting himself as the change candidate and he gave a speech at Tory

0:38.0

Party conference where he said he was going against the status quo. That was before bringing David Cameron back.

0:44.4

Now of course I won't get into why that is still compatible with change going to some.

0:48.8

But effectively use three big policy announcements to try and point to this. The first being

0:54.4

scrapping HS2, the second being ditching A levels with the introduction of

0:58.0

something much more like the International Baccalaureate, something which isn't

1:01.8

happening yet but they would consult on so that would be you'd have to win another term to do and then make

1:06.6

trying to create a smoke-free generation now this policy originates from New Zealand where the Labour Party said that they would do it.

1:14.6

However, since they lost power and a new Conservative government came in, this has now been scrapped.

1:20.2

That has not put Rishasunak off.

1:22.4

And when that night's made they always

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