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Lynton Crosby Chaired Tobacco Meeting Last Year, Says Labour

Lynton Crosby Chaired Tobacco Meeting Last Year, Says Labour
Ned Simons
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File photo dated 14/06/13 of Prime Minister David Cameron who has welcomed the deportation of Abu Qatada, saying removing the terror suspect from the UK "was a priority for this govt", and that there was a "clear plan" and a "right and stubborn refusal to bow to what many thought inevitable".
File photo dated 14/06/13 of Prime Minister David Cameron who has welcomed the deportation of Abu Qatada, saying removing the terror suspect from the UK "was a priority for this govt", and that there was a "clear plan" and a "right and stubborn refusal to bow to what many thought inevitable".
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Lynton Crosby, the Conservative party's election co-ordinator, chaired a meeting last year where members of the tobacco industry discussed how to block the government's plan to force cigarettes to be sold in plain packets, Labour claimed on Sunday.

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