Labour party peers have been pushing for a smoking ban in cars today when children are present. For the sake of the chiiildren. It has been sneaked into the Children and Families Bill.
In the end, the amendment was backed by 222 vs 197 against. It now passes to the House of Commons where MPs will have a free vote.
All the usual junk trotted out here and on the radio below:
Our Chairman has been very busy on various radio stations today:
BBC Radio Stoke – from around 8 through 32 mins in.
BBC Northampton from 25 min
BBC WM from 1 hour 6 mins 30 secs
BBC Leeds from 50 mins
Pat Nurse has also contributed:
BBC Radio Tees from 15:30 to 23:00
And Simon Clark of Forest has been busy too:
Taking Liberties Blog: Smoking in Cars with Children the Battle Lines are Drawn
Update 7th Jan 2014:
All the above radio links are now dead. However the longest of them, BBC radio Stoke, can be listened to here:
(Link no Longer Available)