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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Government food tsar quits with blast at 'insane' Tory failure to tackle obesity

The Government's food tsar has quit with a blast at “insane” Tory inaction against obesity.

Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby said the Conservatives were refusing to impose restrictions on the junk food industry due to an obsession with “ultra-free-market ideology”.

"There is a concern that dealing with these issues could be seen to be ‘nanny state’ and plays badly in the ‘red wall’ constituencies,” he told the Sunday Times.

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