Graeme Demianyk is a news editor at HuffPost UK, and is based in New York. As well as being night new editor, he has written extensively on the Grenfell tower disaster and the UK's housing crisis.
has faced a big Tory backlash as MPs voted for the first time on government plans to stop young people from ever smoking.
Tory MPs have been granted a free vote, meaning they can vote with their personal conscience rather than follow the official party line.The prime minister announced the plan at the Conservative Party conference in October.Under the new law, the legal age for buying tobacco – currently 18 – would increase every year by one year so that people born in or after 2009 will never legally be able to buy cigarettes.
The bill will also give the government new powers to clamp down on young people vaping, which include imposing restrictions on flavours and regulating the way they are packaged and sold to make them less appealing to children.
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