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Backbench campaign to raise smoking age

A group of backbench MPs is pressing the Government to raise the age at which young people can buy cigarettes. Labour’s Jeff Ennis has tabled a parliamentary motion calling for the minimum aged to be raised from 16 to 18. The campaign has so far been backed by 47 MPs. Mr Ennis, MP for Barnsley… Read more »

Chancellor to join G8 march

Gordon Brown has pledged to join a massive demonstration during the G8 summit next month. The Chancellor received an invite to the forthcoming Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh. Organisers predict hundreds of thousands will descend on the Scottish capital to make their feelings known about Third World poverty. Mr Brown told a local radio… Read more »