One rule for us, another for our ‘masters’

It seems that the somking ban will not apply to certain rooms at the G20 summit next month.

The ban, introduced in the Health Act 2006, is widely cited as being a major contributing factor to the loss of one-fifth of pub jobs as more and more Great British Pubs are forced to close their doors.

After an amendment to the legislation, the Excel Exhibition Centre in Docklands, East London, will open certain smoking rooms for foreign dignitaries, despite denying private members bars and clubs the same right.

Anne Widdecombe, Conservative MP for Maidstone and the Weald, said: ‘It’s one law for one, and one for another, and I think that sums up this government’.