Smoking ban vote breakdown of Tory MPs

FOR: 178 Tory MPs
AGAINST: 57 Tory MPs
ABSTAINED: 106 Tory MPs

That means only about half of Tory MPs actually voted **for** Rishi Sunak's legacy-shaping smoking ban.

[NB some abstentions will be because people were tied up elsewhere.]

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From May I'll be freelance full time. It's scary but something I've wanted to do for a very long time.

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Give the captions operative a pay rise….

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Full story with Daniel Martin and Amy Gibbons:

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Really angered more than I should be by WhatsApp’s sudden capitalisation of the word Online.

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