Cigar-chomping new Health Secretary Therese Coffey voted to repeal the smoking ban and has accepted hospitality from Big Tobacco.
The new Deputy Prime Minister has taken a long-held stance against anti-tobacco legislation and supported a motion calling for a review of its impact on private members’ clubs.
The best pal of new PM Liz Truss also in 2011 opposed a ban on smoking in vehicles where there are children present.
