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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nina Lloyd

Sunak says he has never smoked but it is ‘irrelevant’ to proposed crackdown

PA Wire

Rishi Sunak has revealed he has never had a cigarette, but said it has “no relevance” to his proposal to raise the legal smoking age annually.

The Conservative Prime Minister defended the announcement against criticism that such a policy would go against “Thatcherite principles”.

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