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House of Commons Hansard Debates for 05 Dec 2006 (pt 0012) 

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Ivan Lewis): The Conservative party has no shame whatever. . . .

In The House Magazine, the organisation Forest recently had an advert saying, “No thanks” to the nanny state, which, it says, tells people not to eat, drink, smoke or think. It attacks politicians for having a dialogue with people about responsible approaches to their health. Big government, it says, is watching. It says, “Eat, drink and smoke.” At the Conservative party conference in Bournemouth, however, almost 400 people tried to get into Forest’s fringe meeting, and hospital staff were forced to turn people away, citing health and safety reasons.

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