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UK: Smoking ban moves forward, EV rules relaxed, election

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Sir Keir Starmer

It's only been six months since Sir Keir Starmer's party won the election, but a petition for another one already has nearly 3 million signatures. Photo: AP

UK correspondent Dan Bloom looks at how plans to ban smoking for anyone born from 2009 onwards are moving full steam ahead - despite their champion, former PM Rishi Sunak declining to partake in the first vote and the new Tory leader voting against.

Ministers plan to relax the UK's EV rules after lobbying from the car industry.

And a petition for a fresh election just months after the first has had nearly 3 million signatures.

Dan Bloom is senior author of Politico's London Playbook.