Why are Tony Blair and Sadiq Khan speaking at a ‘Big Tobacco allies’ summit?

Exclusive: Calls for former prime minister and London mayor to pull out of New York conference that features Philip Morris CEO and lists tobacco giant as patron

Tony Blair, Sadiq Khan, Nick Clegg and David Milliband are among the speakers at a conference in New York that has been funded by the tobacco industry, this newsletter has learned.

The former and current UK politicians will all be speaking at next week’s Concordia Summit. 

Self-described ‘as the leading public-private sector forum’ that runs alongside the…