Lords support ban on smoking with children in cars - media coverage
Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 11:27
Simon Clark

That went well. Not.

I'll conduct a full post mortem on last night's vote (BBC News, Ban on smoking in cars carrying children backed by Lords), and the media reaction, in due course.

It was disappointing, obviously, especially after what was a very the long day, media wise. Here's the full list of interviews I did yesterday:

Television
BBC1 Breakfast
BBC News Channel
Sky News
ITV Lunchtime News
ITV Evening News

National Radio
0705 BBC Five Live Breakfast
0735 BBC Radio 4 Today

Local Radio
LBC
BBC Merseyside
BBC Manchester
BBC Cumbria
BBC Cambridge
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
BBC Devon
BBC Hereford and Worcestershire
BBC Leicester
BBC Nottingham
BBC Cornwall
BBC Suffolk
BBC Humberside
BBC Sheffield
BBC Oxford

I had to turn down the following because times clashed with other interviews:

BBC Essex
BBC Stoke
BBC Berkshire
BBC Shropshire
TalkSport
Voice of Russia

As I mentioned yesterday Chris Snowdon (IEA), Ian Dunt (editor, politics.co.uk) and Dave Atherton also did number of interviews.

Chris did BBC Five Live's Morning Reports, BBC Radio Wales and Channel 5 News.

Ian did ITV's Daybreak and Channel 5 News.

Dave did a number of local radio interviews.

Forest was quoted in most if not all national newspapers.

Here are one or two links to video reports:

Smoking in cars with children ban bid (Sky News)

Ban on smoking in cars is 'excessive' says lobby group (ITV News)

See also: Pro-smoking group: Labour 'playing politics' with issue (ITV.com)

The Jeremy Vine Show (BBC Radio 2) is discussing the subject at 1.30pm today. Not sure who's doing it, but I know the programme will feature someone on 'our' side.

Breaking news: Nick Clegg opposes ban on smoking in cars with children (BBC News)

Update: Featured guests discussing smoking in cars on the Jeremy Vine Show were Alex Cunningham MP and James Levy, author of the Forest Guides to Smoking in London (1997) and Scotland (1998).

The programme also featured a listener called David Hall who described smoking in cars with children as "child abuse".

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