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Labour: Government pushed around by tobacco lobby

Labour leader Ed Miliband said today that the Government had been "pushed around" by the tobacco lobby.

The Government should have legislated on plain packaging earlier this year and they didn't because they were pushed around by the tobacco lobby, now they've changed their mind because they feared a Parliamentary defeat yet even now they offer dither and delay.

I think the British people deserve more than a Government that is just buffeted around by events day after day.

– Ed Miliband

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