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In February 2014, 453 MPs voted in favour of, and only 24 MPs voted against, tabled amendments to the Children and Families Bill which would enable the UK government to, among other things, introduce regulations requiring plain packaging for tobacco products.123 Nevertheless, following the January 2015 announcement, the British press reported that 100 Conservative MPs would vote…

Background Angela Harbutt is the campaigns manager for the industry-funded smokers’ group Forest. She managed the Hands Off Our Packs campaign created in response to plain packaging proposals in the UK,25 and the No Thank EU campaign in response to the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision.26 She is also the Executive…

Background Mark Littlewood is the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. In 2001 he became Campaigns Director for the human rights group Liberty, leaving in 2004 to found NO2ID. From December 2004 to May 2007, he was Head of Media for the Liberal Democrats. In 2007, he co-founded Progressive Vision, ‘a classical liberal think tank’ and…

The law firms listed in this category have worked for tobacco companies. ReferencesHide↑Hansard, Children and Families Bill (Programme No. 3), House of Commons Debates, 10 February 2014, accessed February 2015↑S. MacGuill, House of Enablers – Does anything now…

Dr Tim Evans is Professor of Business and Political Economy at Middlesex University London.64 In 2017 he was also Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute (ASI), and Chairman of the Economic Policy Centre (EPC).64 Both are British libertarian think tanks, with the former having received tobacco industry funding.65 Evans has strongly opposed UK tobacco…

Jamie Dettmer is a senior media fellow at the Democracy Institute and also sits on its advisory council. He is a journalist and editorial consultant, who runs his own blog and tweets at @jamiewrit. Dettmer was listed as a speaker at the 2012 Global Tobacco Networking Forum, an annual tobacco industry event now known as the…

Daniel Hamilton joined public relations firm FTI Consulting in 2015 to become Senior Director Strategic Communications in its London office.74 Background Prior to working for FTI Consulting, Hamilton was Director of Big Brother Watch where he resigned in 2011 to join Imperial Tobacco‘s PR company, Bell Pottinger75. At Bell Pottinger, he joined another ex-Big…

Background Brook Wilkinson was a UK-based public relations company run by Rosemary Brook. Relationship with the Tobacco Industry Brook Wilkinson worked for the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association in the 1990s and 2000s.7879 In the financial year 2000/1 Brook charged the TMA £24,000 in fees. The TMA’s budget included a further £5,000 for the company’s expenses and…

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