This special event was hosted by Boisdale MD Ranald Macdonald and Simon Clark, director of the smokers’ group Forest (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) at Boisdale of Canary Wharf. There were 156 guests across 15 tables from The Institute of Economic Affairs, the Adam Smith Institute, Conservatives for Liberty and Women In Tobacco. The TaxPayers Alliance was represented along with the Institute of Ideas, Manifesto Club and Liberal Vision. Journalists from The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal and Daily Mail attended the event as well as six MPs and several parliamentary researchers. The evening began on the the Cuban Garden Terrace with the Havana Club Rum mojitos. Dinner was served in the main restaurant followed by speeches from Rob Lyons (Action on Consumer Choice), uliette Tworsey and Jules Shapiro, guests from New Orleans where smoking was banned in bars and casinos earlier this year. The principal speaker was Bafta award-winning film producer Stephen Evans, who veered off in various directions referencing Shakespeare, Churchill and George Best before finishing with the rallying cry, “Enough is enough!”