Q: What would you do that would make a difference on prevention?
Streeting turns to vaping. He says a generation of children has been addicted to nicotine.
He says children are turning up to school distracted.
Until Labour put this on the agenda, the government was not moving.
The government should ban the marketing and sale of vaping to children. And he says if the government does not act before the election, Labour will come down on the industry “like a tonne of bricks” after the election.
Updated at 13.31 EDT
Keir Starmer has said Labour would get rid of the Rwanda deportation policy even if it appeared to be working at the time of the next election. (See 9.29am.)
Labour pro-Europeans have failed in a bid to get the conference to debate Brexit. (See 3.44pm.)
Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, has said Labour will come down on the vaping industry “like a tonne of bricks” to stop it selling and marketing its products if the government has not acted by the time of the general election. He also said that Labour will whips its MPs to vote in favour of Rishi Sunak’s plan to gradually raise the age at which people can buy cigarettes, so that younger generations can never buy them.
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