Watch: Labour MPs mock NatCon shutdown

It’s a sad day for lovers of personal freedom. Not only is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pressing on with his smoking ban — the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is taking place today — but now the Belgian authorities are attempting to shut down the National Conservatism conference in Brussels. Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman are among the attendees while a number of speakers, including MEP Patricia Chagnon and Eric Zemmour, have been denied access to the event. So much for freedom of speech…

It’s all a big joke to Labour MPs, though, who giggled their way through a fiery speech by shadow health secretary Wes Streeting this afternoon. Streeting started by impersonating Boris Johnson — who, by the way, believes the smoking ban is ‘nuts’ — before his colleagues burst out laughing as Streeting mocked Braverman’s current predicament. The former home secretary is currently in Belgium attending NatCon with, according to the Labour frontbencher, ‘some far-right fanatics’.