Wes Streeting threatens to ‘come down like ton of bricks’ on vaping industry

Streeting accused the vaping industry of addicting ‘a generation of children to nicotine’ with brightly coloured products. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian

Labour will “come down like a ton of bricks” on the vaping industry if Rishi Sunak does not “pull his finger out” and introduce regulations, Wes Streeting has said.

The shadow health secretary attacked the prime minister, saying he had been leading a government that had been “asleep at the wheel” as a generation of children become addicted to nicotine.