Smoking in cars with children - media battle lines are drawn
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 6:30
Simon Clark

Labour wants to ban smoking in cars with children.

The party has tabled an amendment to the Children and Families Bill which peers will vote on later today.

Hence I'm on BBC Breakfast at 7.40.

That's the 'good' news.

The bad news is I've had to drive to Salford which meant getting up at three o'clock.

I've also been booked to do the following radio interviews, although one or two may be rescheduled to allow for the telly:

0635 BBC Merseyside
0708 BBC Five Live
0715 BBC Humberside
0722 BBC Essex
0730 BBC Stoke
0738 BBC Berkshire
0752 BBC Shropshire
0800 BBC Manchester
0808 BBC Cumbria
0815 BBC Cambridge
0822 BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
0830 BBC Devon
0838 BBC Hereford and Worcestershire
0845 BBC London
0852 BBC Nottingham

I also recorded a soundbite for Sky News yesterday that should be broadcast as part of a news package today.

Thankfully there's a small team of us in action.

Ian Dunt, editor of politics.co.uk, is on ITV's Daybreak. Chris Snowdon is on Five Live's Morning Reports and BBC Radio Wales, and Dave Atherton is on BBC WM.

There will be more, I'm sure.

I'll keep you posted.

Update: Still in Manchester.

Also did:

0900 BBC Cornwall
0908 BBC Suffolk
0915 BBC Humberside
0922 BBC Sheffield
1030 BBC Oxford

Did BBC News Channel at 11.30.

I'm on ITV Lunchtime News at 1.30 (with Labour's Luciana Berger). Also recorded a soundbite for ITV Evening News.

Doing LBC at 3.00pm.

I believe Chris (or Ian Dunt) is doing Channel 5 News tonight.

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