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.