A crackdown on disposable vapes has been branded a 'total farce' as shops in the Health Secretary's own constituency were found still selling the throwaway devices.
Investigators were able to buy a pile of contraband in under 20 minutes in Wes Streeting's Ilford North stronghold, with hundreds of products marked 'disposable' openly displayed and advertised in shop windows.
Seven businesses in one street casually advertised and sold the illicit vapes, despite a ban introduced on June 1.
Few acknowledged there was any change in the law, with just two out of 20 retailers tested across London turning investigators away.
Shopkeepers face a £200 fine if caught selling the one-use devices which have been blamed for a rise in youth vaping and piles of discarded devices on the streets.
