Another Conservative policy review blunder

You’d have thought managing to flip flop between four different positions on the same policy point in one document, or perhaps using data ten years out of date, would be hard to top, but the Conservative Party’s policy review process has now managed to top even its previous incompetence.

As Gavin Whenman has spotted:

Michael Ancram’s swipe at David Cameron has kind of buried today’s publication of the Tory’s Public Services Improvement Policy Group’s report, but it is worth our attention:

“Proposal 20 – We propose that the next Conservative government should consult on raising the legal age for smoking to 18.” (Page 22)

One tiny problem with this, it’s barely worth mentioning, but just in case, they might like to know that from 1st October 2007 the legal age at which you can purchase any tobacco product is rising to 18