Nearly half of Tory MPs fail to support Sunak's smoking ban as Bill passes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "If we are privileged enough to form the next government, Labour will implement this ban, so young people today are even less likely to smoke than they are to vote Conservative.
51% : and so we will only bring these powers in when we are convinced, following a no-doubt robust debate with the intellectual self-confidence that we have to have such debates on this side of the House, we come to the conclusion that there is no liberty in addiction.
47% : Ms Truss told the BBC's Newscast podcast: "I can't see a purpose for the UN as it stands.
47% : " Asked whether she wanted to abolish the UN, she replied: "I do recommend abolishing quite a lot of things in my book.
43% : " There is "more than one way to crack a nut", Sir Simon Clarke said as he said smoking should be curbed through taxation and education rather than prohibition.
30% : " Liz Truss has suggested the United Nations should be abolished as she claimed it was not fit for purpose in its current form.
30% : The former prime minister, who served as foreign secretary under Boris Johnson, accused the UN of playing a "damaging" role in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

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