"Absolutely nuts" was how former Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Rishi Sunak's plan to gradually phase out smoking – banning anyone born since the start of 2009 from ever being able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products like vapes.

Liz Truss, who was also briefly prime minister in between the two men, is also among some critical of the proposal – which she described as "profoundly un-conservative".

Tories were given a free vote in the Commons – allowing them to vote with their conscience, not necessarily the government.

But will the policy create a smoke-free generation? And what will it mean for Conservative Party ideology?

Niall Paterson looks at the health implications with Alice Wiseman, vice president of The Association of Directors of Public Health, and the politics of the policy with Sky's political editor Beth Rigby and Tory peer Lord Frost, who disagrees with the planned legislation.

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Rishi Sunak has been badly burned by a Commons rebellion by nearly 60 Tory MPs who voted against his flagship Tobacco and Vaping Bill.

When Commons deputy speaker Dame Eleanor Laing called the vote just before 7pm, the rebels on the Conservative back benches made a lot of noise screaming "No!"

And minutes later, it was revealed that their rebellion was not only noisy, but also a defiant show of strength by the mutinous Tory Right that will leave the PM and his allies gasping.

In an ominous but entirely predictable warning shot to the PM, the list of rebels included a roll call of the Right-wing contenders for the Tory crown, both serving and former Cabinet ministers.

Topping the list of leadership candidates desperate to please those party activists was Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, who never misses an opportunity to play to the Tory gallery.

Next was the equally ambitious Robert Jenrick, who also voted against the bill, while Penny Mordaunt, another darling of the activists, appears to have abstained.

Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, dashed back from a controversial conference of Right-wingers in Brussels so she could fire her latest salvo against Mr Sunak.

But the most high-profile and public rebel during the six-hour debate was former prime minister Liz Truss, who made a speech lashing out at "virtue-signalling" and "finger-wagging, nannying control freaks".

The Tory high command will claim that strictly speaking it wasn't a rebellion, because it was a free vote for Conservative MPs, though critics of the PM claimed that was a sign of weakness by the dithering Mr Sunak.

But several government ministers were among the MPs voting against the bill, including Steve Baker, Alex Burghart, Andrew Griffith, Julia Lopez and Lee Rowley. Anne-Marie Trevelyan abstained.

And in a move which will have no doubt emboldened many would-be rebels, the Tories' backbench shop steward, 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady, was among those voting against the bill.

Liz Truss's closest allies also rebelled with her, including her former party chairman Sir Jake Berry, ex-ministers Sir Simon Clarke, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Sir Alec Shelbrooke and Craig Whittaker, who was her deputy chief whip.

Two current Tory deputy chairmen, Brendan Clarke-Smith and Jonathan Gullis, both noisy 2019 Red Wallers, and their even noisier mate Lee Anderson, now in Reform UK, also voted against the bill.

The 67 MPs voting against the bill, plus the two tellers, also included seven Democratic Unionist MPs and the former cigar smoking firebrand George Galloway, who won the Rochdale by-election earlier this year.

The motive of all the rebels? Well, to be fair, many of them genuinely loathe what they call the nanny state and many claim the bill is un-Conservative.

But those leadership contenders' motives go far beyond that. Theirs were all about telling the party membership: "I'm on your side. If you vote for me, I'll uphold true Conservative values."

As for the PM, who hopes this public health legislation will be his legacy to a grateful nation, he'll be hoping the size of the Tory rebellion doesn't mean he's at the fag end of his premiership."

After the government's bill to stop young people ever smoking passed its first hurdle in the House of Commons, Labour's shadow health secretary spoke to broadcasters with his party's view.

Wes Streeting said Labour has "led the debate on phasing out smoking in our country and making sure this generation of children and young people grow up in a smoke-free Britain".

He said: "It is thanks to the votes of Labour MPs we got this measure through the House of Commons today because of the size of the Conservative rebellion."

"Labour is proud not to play politics on the vote. We will get this bill through as quickly as possible. So let's get our skates on, get it through the Commons, get it through the Lords and get it under the statute book."

He pledged that Labour will implement the ban if it forms the next government.

Mr Streeting also said the government has been "slow to act" on the "explosion in the number of children and young people vaping", which he said will have "serious consequences" for the health, and also for their education as "kids are skipping school to go and vape".

By Becky Johnson, communities correspondent

Immigration enforcement staff have had their leave cancelled as the government hopes its plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda will become law this week.

Speaking to Sky News, Lucy Moreton from the ISU, the union for borders, immigration and customs, said the staff who will be expected to arrest and remove people still know very little about how they will be expected to force people on to planes.

She said immigration enforcement officers have had all leave cancelled for six weeks, beginning the week after next.

Initially, they had been told leave was cancelled from next week but that has been delayed.

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The IMF is reporting that the UK economy is going to be growing less than expected this year, and we asked Labour's Jonathan Ashworth how concerned he is about the statement of the economy.

He said growth has been "anaemic", and blamed the Conservatives for the cost of living crisis.

"And then today you've got Liz Truss parading around the studios, asking people to congratulate her for the action she took."

"But the serious point is that the Conservatives haven't learned the lesson. In Liz Truss's book, she's talking about abolishing national insurance. That's exactly the policy. Rishi Sunak has adopted."

Sophy Ridge pointed out that it is a long-term ambition, and he replied that he has not yet explained how he will fund it.

"He's got to explain how he's going to fund a £46bn commitment to get rid of National Insurance. Is it borrowing, putting pressure on mortgages? Is it cuts, the NHS, the state pension, or is it more tax for pensioners?

"Until he explains that, people can conclude he's making exactly the same mistakes that Liz Truss made."

As we reported earlier today, a local mayor in Belgium ordered the police to shut down the National Conservatism conference, which was being attended by Reform UK's honorary president Nigel Farage and former home secretary Suella Braverman.

We asked Labour's Jonathan Ashworth if the police were right to shut the event down, and he replied: "Well, I'm a great believer in freedom of speech. And obviously I'll be interested to hear from the relevant authorities from Brussels what their justification was for shutting down the event."

But he went on to say that scheduled to speak at the event were "pretty unsavoury, very hardline extremist characters, people who have criticised equal marriage, for example, people who have been involved with white supremacist organisations".

Labelling Rishi Sunak "weak", Mr Ashworth said: ""Why is Suella Braverman palling around with these very hardline extremist people? And why isn't Rishi Sunak stepping in to do something about it?"

"He should perhaps even think about taking the whip off her."

He refused to say if the authorities were right to shut the event down, saying "it's a different country", but noting it would have gone ahead here in the UK.

Many Conservative MPs, and even some ministers, have spoken out in opposition to the government's bid to stop young people ever smoking, saying it is an attack on personal freedom.

We asked public health minister Dame Andrea Leadsom for her response, and she said: "The vast majority of Conservative colleagues are supporting it or abstaining on it, seeing how the bill progresses."

She added that the bill was "absolutely not finger-wagging control freakery", saying: "Once you're addicted to nicotine, your freedom of choice is completely gone."

"A freedom-loving, choice-loving individual would choose to allow children to be free from the addiction to nicotine."

We've just had reaction from public health minister Dame Andrea Leadsom to the legislation designed to stop young people ever smoking passing in the House of Commons.

She told Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge: "I'm really pleased actually."

She noted that it was a free vote and it "passed on Conservative numbers".

"It's great news for the prime minister's top priority," she said, saying the legislation was about "free[ing]" young people from nicotine addition.

Vaping is not being banned outright in the bill, and Sophy put to the minister that new research showed vaping could be almost as harmful as smoking over the long run.

She replied: "The fact is that there are six million smokers and many of them, you know, a majority, vast majority of them would love to be able to stop or wish they'd never taken up smoking in the first place.

"And the best quit aid that we have is of course switching from smoking to vaping."

She also hailed the powers in the bill to "be able to restrict flavours, packaging, to put vapes behind the counter" in order to stop vapes being attractive to children.

Lord Cameron is heading to Israel overnight for a one-day visit.

The foreign secretary is set to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Israeli counterpart, Israel Katz, a British official told The Times of Israel.

The paper also reports that Lord Cameron wants to discuss expanded humanitarian aid routes to Gaza, with a particular focus on opening the Ashdod Port and a new crossing from northern Gaza, an official 

He will also discuss the Iranian missile and drone attack, tensions in Lebanon, and the hostage crisis.

Rishi Sunak's bill to ban young people from ever being able to smoke has passed its first Commons hurdle.

However, it appears a swathe of Tory MPs opposed the legislation, and many also abstained.

A total of 383 MPs voted in favour of the bill, while 67 opposed it.

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch announced earlier today that she would vote against the legislation, along with ex-PM Liz Truss and other former ministers.

We will bring you the full breakdown as soon as we have it.