Ministers to delay ban on junk food multi-buy deals
However, health campaigners have criticised delays to the plans, and accused Boris Johnson's government of failing to tackle childhood obesity.
"Instead, he has given in to his own MPs, and an aggressive food industry, who, ironically, were starting to comply with these new policies."The costs of the NHS dealing with obesity in the UK are "vast" and it was time to "get a grip on it", says the PM. "This delay threatens the UK target to halve childhood obesity by 2030. Boris is playing politics with our children's health."
Lord Bethell, who previously served in Boris Johnson's government, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while he was "pro-choice", illnesses caused by excessive junk food consumption were placing a burden on the NHS and the taxpayer.
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