Wes Streeting, health secretary, has confirmed that the smoking ban in pub gardens will now be scrapped.Wes Streeting confirmed that the government has scrapped its plan to impose a smoking ban on pub gardens after the policy was leaked.As first reported by The Sun in August, ministers were planning to ban smoking in outdoor restaurants, outside sports stadiums and hospitals as well as pub gardens – news which triggered a significant backlash from the hospitality sector. Two months later, the government is still going ahead with Rishi Sunak’s plan to introduce a phase smoking ban in its Tobacco and Vapes Bill, making it illegal for anyone born after 2010 to legally buy tobacco products.And Labour will still be banning smoking outside schools and hospitals to protect children and the most vulnerable.