News · 23 July 2026
Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe wants smoking rooms back in pubs
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Rupert Lowe, who leads the right-wing party Restore Britain, has called for pub landlords to be allowed to create indoor smoking rooms. He stated on X that if adults and landlords agree, it's "none of our business" to stop them. Lowe's proposal comes nearly two decades after England's indoor smoking ban began in July 2007.
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