Restricting flavoured vapes make sense, but halting tobacco sales altogether for all entering adulthood is bizarre, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Truss has said that the prime minister’s plan to gradually ban cigarette sales is ‘absurd’ and ‘profoundly unconservative’

Former science minister George Freeman said his monthly payments have risen from £800 to £2,000

PM consumes only water, tea or black coffee from 5pm on a Sunday to 5am on a Tuesday, which can have benefits for ageing and DNA repair

Watch live as the Rwanda bill faces a test in the House of Lords on Monday 29 January.

Rishi sunak joined school pupils for a lesson on the dangers of disposable vapes. The Prime Minister met with students, teachers, and parents at the Haughton Academy in Darlington on Monday (29 January), as he announced disposable vapes will be banne ...

PM vows to work ‘resolutely’ with allies, as UK blames ‘Iran-aligned militia groups’ for attack

Lord Hayward has written to the elections watchdog calling for a crackdown on anonymously-funded polls and measures to ensure their results are not misrepresented in news stories

PM pushes on with crackdown on disposable vapes – despite revolt against his ‘profoundly unconservative’ youth smoking ban

Exclusive: Over 250 charities, religious bodies and civil society organisations say Rwanda bill ‘threatens universal human rights’

Former PM is fomenting revolt describing proposal as ‘absurd’ as government set to go ahead with plans to ban disposable vapes

The ban is expected to come into place at the end of 2024 or start of 2025

 

With the Conservatives facing electoral disaster, the party plotters are at it again, seeking to oust yet another leader

‘He is incredibly disciplined’, one friend says

Business secretary said she was ‘extremely’ frustrated at intense speculation she could replace the prime minister

Business secretary says it would be wrong to replace sunak as party leader on the basis of poor polling

Jeremy Hunt targets further reduction in ‘jobs tax’ in March budget

Dark forces are dragging the prime minister – and the party – to extinction

Home Office said refugees’ fear of persecution was ‘well-founded’, undermining Rishi sunak’s claims about East African country