MPs, wonks, and freedom lovers of all stripes turned up to the Commons last night to muster opposition to Sunak’s generational tobacco and disposable vape bans. Smokers’ rights group Forest, who hosted the event, brought in a few banners, including one which rubbed Parliamentary security up the wrong way. Security took one look at a banner depicting “Nanny Rishi” and deemed it “offensive” before confiscating it. A clampdown on political caricatures – what will they ban next?

The innocuous banner was later found strewn in lost property. Forest director Simon Clark tells Guido: “The Government wants to prohibit cigarettes being sold to future generations. Are they going to restrict how we protest against the nanny state as well?” The only “offensive” thing here is Sunak’s infantilisation of the public…