‘Worse than half-baked’: Johnson’s food strategy fails to tackle cost or climate

The white paper proposes an increase in the use of ‘responsibly sourced wild venison’. Photograph: Alex Fieldhouse/Alamy

Boris Johnson’s new food strategy for England contains virtually no new measures to tackle the soaring cost of food, childhood hunger, obesity or the climate emergency, a leaked version of the white paper shows.

The strategy, seen by the Guardian and due to be published on Monday, was supposed to be a groundbreaking response to recommendations from the restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, who wrote two government-commissioned reports on obesity and the environment.