Norway’s health minister: Let the people smoke and drink

Controversial right-wing MP Sylvi Listhaug is back in Norway’s government a year after begin booted out as minister of justice – this time her portfolio is that of public health and the elderly. Not one to shy away from the opportunity of a good headline, she has given an interview to Norway’s state broadcaster which has made her name fly around the world yet again. I spoke to Markus Hippi on Monocle 24’s The Briefing about the ballyhoo.

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