Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's plan to crack down on outdoor smoking

The UK Government is reportedly planning to ban smoking in outdoor public areas amid health concerns.

Leaked documents claim smoking in beer gardens, outside restaurants and hospitals, and football stadiums could soon be made illegal.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Nigel Farage has already voiced opposition to the moves to ban outdoor smoking.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
UK correspondent in the Bradys.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
They say, Inda, hey, Heather Good speaking again?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Okay, well this crack down on smoking. Is this going
to go down well?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
So Nigel Frage says it will be the end of pubs.
I think a lot of people wish it would be
the end of him. He just keeps chipping in and
criticizing absolutely everything Starmar's trying to do. Here, we are
in a situation now where eighty thousand people a year
are dying because of smoking and the related cancer is
caused by it. Starmer's made it clear that this is

(00:29):
the end of outdoor smoking. So where areas he's looking at?
Targeting sports ground, beer gardens and even people smoking outside hospitals,
which I always find utterly bizarre. If you ever go
to visit anyone in hospital, there will be twenty thirty
people outside happily puffing away, all wondering how they've ended
up in hospital, in the state they're in. So Starmer

(00:51):
is basically clamping down on it. The legislation is in
the pipeline, It is absolutely coming. There's a leaked document
that several tabloids have on their front pages today. How
will it go down? Look? I'm a non smoker. I'm
passionately anti smoking. I grew up with my grandfather. He
smoked every day of his life, and I was with

(01:11):
him in the morgue when it all ended, and that
is something as a child that has stayed with me
my entire life. So I say, the quicker the better.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
The trouble with it is. And I don't like smoking
as much as you, and I think those people having
fags outside the hospital are ridiculous as well. But it's
not going to stop them, is it. It's just going
to drive them further down the road. I mean, so
it doesn't actually stop the problem, it just moves it on.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I think the initial drive behind this heather is to
stop secondhand smoke, so that if people are out for
a nice lunchtime drink at a weekend in a beer
garden and there's someone happily puffing away beside you, or
if you go to a sports stadium to watch whether
it's rugby, cricket or soccer here, you know you don't
want to be sitting beside someone who's blowing smoke in

(01:56):
your face. And I think at some stage they're going
to have to do something about vaping. As well, because
it's getting to epidemic levels in London now. Literally the
fragrance du jour on the streets of London is strawberry cheesecake.
You walk along and you see all these young fellas
with beards happily puffing away on these vapes and clouds
of this stuff coming out behind them. We don't even

(02:17):
know what's in it.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, no, very good point. Hey, what do you make
of this treaty with Germany.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I think it's excellent news and I think long term,
this is Britain going back into Europe. Now, they won't
say it, they won't in any way discuss rejoining the
European Union right now, but Starmer is sharp enough to
realize that Brexit has done untold damage to Britain's economy,
reputation and the movement of young people. So this was

(02:43):
the fifth time he's met the German Chancellor in fifty
one days of being Prime Minister. Five meetings in fifty
one days with another European leader. So he clearly gets
on with Olaf Schultz of Germany. He feels that there's
a relationship to be built. He's already getting on very
well with Macron of France, and I think, you know,
in terms of freedom of movement, yes, a lot of

(03:04):
young Germans will want to come to the UK. They
will want to study, live, work and learn here in
the same way that that opportunity is currently being denied
from young British people on the continent. So on the
face of it, it's very good news, but I think
it's the first step in a very long journey towards
getting Britain back into the European scene.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Right, So the critics who see this as a move
towards basically going and dooing brixit, are they right? Do
you think?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think within a decade Brexit will be completely undone.
And a decade is too long to wait. We're eight
years into this project now. There are no benefits. I mean,
it's ridiculous. The Conservatives actually had a Minister for Brexit Opportunities,
and anyone sitting down with a piece of paper after
five minutes would have had a blank piece of paper
in front of them because there were no opportunities. There

(03:56):
were never going to be any opportunities. It was all
driven by xenophobia and jingoistic drum beating, but by Brexiteer
Britz and it has cost this country eight hundred million,
sorry billion pounds. I struggle saying it. Eight hundred billion
pounds gone in eight years in the economy. I mean,
it is insane.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
You're gonna get your Oasis tickets this week in gonna
try try you want to go, You're going to want
to go.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
To My wife wants to go to the Wembley Ones
and I'm gonna so basically we're gonna double up our
chances of getting a ticket. So she's gonna log in
and try get Wembley tickets. I'm gonna log in and
try get Dublin tickets and if that fails, I'm going
to be tapping up everyone I know in the music
industry in Ireland as a kind of please help.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Me shamelessly and as you should be. This is a
great opportunity in to go.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I hope you get those tickets this week and we'll
talk to you next Tuesday in the Brady Are UK Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
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