One of David Cameron’s closest advisers has been caught up in a tobacco lobbying row after it emerged that she promoted a new product from the Marlboro manufacturer, Philip Morris, at this year’s Tory party conference. Marley attended this year’s Tory party conference to promote Philip Morris’s IQOS product, which it claims reduces harmful chemical emissions by heating, not burning, tobacco. Peter Nixon, its managing director, has claimed that it shows the government is on a “similar path” to Philip Morris. Philip Morris said Marley had sought permission from the Cabinet Office prior to her appointment. Last week it emerged that his former energy minister Lord Barker is now chairman of a Russian oligarch’s aluminium firm.

Source: The Guardian October 21, 2017 21:00 UTC