The Latest Breaking News from Henry Dimbleby

The Guardian view on Earth-friendly diets: cooking animals is cooking the planet

Editorial: Eating less meat will help, but governments remain indispensable actors in solving the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022

England must reduce meat intake to avoid climate breakdown, says food tsar

Henry Dimbleby says move is politically toxic but only way to achieve sustainable land use and avoid ecological breakdown

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2022

Campaigners take legal action over failings of England’s food strategy

Global Feedback seeks judicial review of plan for not suggesting less meat and dairy consumption

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2022

Fury as government waters down post-Brexit food standards

Strategy described as ‘missed opportunity’ as final wording merely commits to ‘considering’ animal welfare

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2022

Food plan unlikely to beat obesity crisis, leading UK inequalities expert warns

Exclusive: Sir Michael Marmot criticises focus on personal responsibility over official action

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2022

Boris Johnson defends government food strategy during Cornwall farm visit

The Prime Minister was speaking at Southern England Farms in Hayle at the launch of a major review of the UK’s food system

Birmingham Post · Jun 13, 2022

Heads ‘deeply disappointed’ at ditched plans for free school meals extension

Teachers have branded the decision ‘extraordinary’.

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

The Standard View: A trade war with Europe is not the answer to the cost of living crisis

The UK economy shrank by a larger than expected 0.3 per cent in April, heightening fears that Britain is headed for recession. City experts had been expecting output to contract by 0.1 per cent, following a similar decline in March.

Evening Standard · Jun 13, 2022

Johnson defends food strategy amid criticism from Government’s own lead adviser

The Prime Minister denied the plan fails to tackle obesity and said the best way to lose weight was to “eat less” as he visited a farm in Cornwall.

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

Boris Johnson's food expert hits out at PM for ditching new wave of free school meals

Henry Dimbleby said it was 'impossible' to claim kids on Universal Credit don't all need free school meals - as he warned the cost of living crisis is hitting some of Britain's poorest families hard

Daily Mirror · Jun 13, 2022