Tory MP Philip Davies said to attendees of smoker-rights group Forest’s annual lunch:
“This legislation is utterly absurd. Not only is it illiberal, and a triumph for the nanny state – treating adults as children – it is also completely unenforceable.
In years to come are we really expecting shops to ask 51-year-olds for ID to ensure they are not 50? Are trading standards going to send in 48-year-olds to see if a rogue shop sells them a packet of fags despite them being 3 years below the new age limit?
I look forward to voting against this nonsensical and embarrassing Bill at third reading.”
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”