We don’t need a new tax system on food, but instead to reform the one we already have to make it more rational, and indeed simpler.
We owe it to our children, and the NHS, to crack down on advertising and make sure healthy eating is always the easy choice.
Obesity is a complex problem, and squeezing low-income households with mandatory price hikes won’t solve it.
Poor health takes older people out of the workforce, reducing local incomes and buying power.
Tory candidates in London, Manchester and Oxfordshire made their opposition to these schemes known. It didn’t win us votes.
This ideology celebrates willpower, yet scientific research challenges how much of it we have when making dietary choices.
This highly interventionist strategy lacks evidence, and is hardly a Conservative approach.
This ‘nudge’ instinct is all too common in corporations, which view themselves as guiding forces on health, morality, politics, and actually most things.
Children’s health is too often weaponised as a justification for pushing through all sorts of unnecessary new punitive taxes and regulations.
Johnson, Street, and Houchen have all embraced the bike, and reaped the rewards both for the party and the nation.
The State continues to restrict personal freedom in a bid, it claims, to save life, while trying to avoid spelling out the risks to life caused by excess weight.
A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.
New proposals will stifle the food and drink industry, which has played a vital role in supporting the country through the pandemic.
We face a perfect storm of obesity, diabetes, dementia, and an epidemic of cardio-respiratory disease in our most economically vulnerable communities
With the majority of adults in the UK now overweight, the case for taking action on our waistlines has never been stronger.