Awful woman!
As a Labour supporter, I wonder if there’s a deliberate policy to get all the unpopular stuff out of the way right at the beginning so it’s forgotten by the time we go to the polls again. Its the shit before the jam. (otherwise known as the Devon policy.)
Arguments that the smoking ban will "kill" pubs in 2007. FOREST & other tobacco industry funded groups claimed it was bad for business, particularly pubs. In fact: between March 2007 and March 2008, the number of premises with licenses to sell alcohol increased by 4,200." ash.org.uk/media-centre...
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.
That was a great speech from Starmer.
I urge you to read the full report from Index on Censorship about schools in the UK who are removing LGBTQ+ books from their libraries, often just because one parent complains. This needs to be stamped out - all students deserve better than this. www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/08/bann...
A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves