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UK MP hits out at 'Australian huckster'
Labour MP Diane Abbott said the influence of the Tory strategy chief Lynton Crosby was clear after plain packaging for cigarettes and minimum pricing for alcohol were not included in Wednesday's Queen's Speech, despite the government previously suggestin
May 10, 2013
AAP (Australian Associated Press) (au)
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May 9, 2013 14:24
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[UK] NFRN welcolmes shoplifting clampdown announced in Queen’s Speech
The National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) ... “With display bans already in place in the large retailers, and coming into effect in small stores in 2015, tobacco branding will be virtually invisible so we are delighted that David Cameron has s
May 9, 2013
Talking Retail (uk)
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May 10, 2013 10:31
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[UK] Newsbeat - Calls for plain cigarette packaging
A teenager has written to the Prime Minister calling for the Government to introduce plain cigarette packaging. Fifteen-year-old Liam Pape is asking David Cameron to change the law after growing up with a parent who smokes.
May 9, 2013
BBC Online
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May 10, 2013 10:29
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[Australia, UK] MP queries if Cameron aide had role in axing health plans
Sarah Wollaston, a Conservative MP, called for clarity on the involvement of Lynton Crosby after measures to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes and minimal alcohol pricing were not included in the legislative programme. Both have faced fierce oppos
May 9, 2013
Times Of London (uk)
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May 9, 2013 14:56
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[UK] Queen's speech is ruthless attempt to put focus on families, says PM
David Cameron tells ministers that measures on cigarettes and alcohol have been left out to streamline work of government
May 9, 2013
The Guardian (uk)
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May 9, 2013 14:43
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[UK] WHITE: The fags and booze crackdown that wasn't: or why we need a register of lobbyists
without a statutory register, a compulsory code of conduct, and an obligation on all politicians and civil servants to declare their meetings, the industry simply comes across as sordid. Countless Government decisions appear suspicious, when they may very
May 9, 2013
New Statesman (uk)
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May 9, 2013 14:29
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Crosby health policies role in UK denied
DAVID Cameron's strategy chief Lynton Crosby had "no input" into the decision to ditch two key health policies from the Queen's Speech, a Conservative Party source insisted after a Tory MP questioned his links to alcohol and tobacco firms. Sarah Wollasto
May 9, 2013
News Interactive Network/News Limited/News.com (au)
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May 9, 2013 14:25
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[Canada] LETTER: SHATENSTEIN: Tobacco may be legal, but the deadly poison is still sold to consumers
they knowingly sell deadly poison to consumers and that is both criminal and immoral. But, of course, Mr. Grant can’t make the connection because his Coalition is funded by the tobacco industry and, as author Upton Sinclair famously explained, “It is dif
May 8, 2013
Windsor (Ont) Star (ca)
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May 13, 2013 08:58
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[UK] STACEY: Senior Tories distance themselves from Crosby | Westminster blog
Even Tories are getting involved ... Sarah Wollaston MP Are alcohol & tobacco lobbyists the real 'barnacles' that need to be scraped off the Ship of State?
May 8, 2013
Financial Times blogs
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May 9, 2013 14:22
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PICKARD: When Ukip tried to hire Lynton Crosby | Westminster blog
Ukip wanted to hire Mr Crosby about a year ago to become their elections supremo. But the asking price, supposedly £350,000 a year – or the equivalent – would have been outside the reach of Mr Farage’s chequebook. (UPDATE: My mole now says it was £750,000
May 8, 2013
Financial Times blogs
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May 9, 2013 14:12