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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

The gospel according to Boris Johnson: it’s the church’s fault our kids are overweight

Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson: ‘When I was a kid, we were all out playing in the streets the whole time.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Where would we be without a mind like this? The genius that is Boris Johnson. The man who has done more for this country than all other politicians of his generation. Never mind that most of it has been for the worse. Let’s not bother ourselves with inconvenient details.

Instead let’s focus on the greater truth. That, in Boris, we have had a prime minister of startling insight. A man who has thought about the obesity crisis for all of 10 seconds and decided the blame lies with the Church of England. Even more unbelievably, it’s an opinion for which he doesn’t seemed to have charged. Boris will be devastated when he realises he could have got £10k from the Daily Mail for it.

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