Tim Lang

When it comes to food, we need the nanny state

Henry Dimbleby’s long-awaited National Food Strategy took three years to write, yet the Prime Minister appeared to dismiss its key recommendation of taxing sugar and salt within mere hours of it landing.

Boris Johnson likes to talk about ‘levelling up’ — and nowhere is this more needed than when it comes to food.

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