Commons leader known to have reservations about PM’s plan, as Liz Truss swipes at ‘unelected’ officials
Penny Mordaunt, a potential Conservative leadership challenger to Rishi Sunak, is among the cabinet ministers wavering over whether to support the prime minster’s generational smoking ban.
Mordaunt, the leader of the House of Commons, is known to have reservations about the prime minister’s tobacco and vapes bill and the precedent it would set for banning other unhealthy things.
