People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, ... All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,

In many ways I think the French electorate will decide the timing because if the French vote 'no' then there will be really no rational reason for him to stay on.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

While our real estate allocations may have dropped from 10 percent down to 7, the difference was often made up by increasing offshore real estate holdings. Of course, that only makes sense for the most wealthy clients, because for smaller ones it's not worthwhile to split assets into 2 percent and 3 percent allocations.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.