Nitrous oxide will become a class C drug in the UK and carry up to two years in jail for possession.
There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.
I feel like it's actually kind of already an illicit substance and therefore illegal.
So at this point they're just making laws to make things that are already illegal more illegal but it doesn't matter because none of them are enforced anyway.
There's a lot of pressure on Rishi Sunak right now to call an early election. Primarily because the back benches just automatically assume that there's going to be more revelations coming (or equally possible they actually know something), and at this point they actually limiting damage by getting out of power early.
They are thinking about the election cycle after this one.