Henry Dimbleby resigned at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs last week after five years in post, criticising an 'ultra-free-market ideology' as he walked out the door.
A ban on pre-9pm junk food adverts was also due to come into force this year but this has been kicked down the road as well.Mr Dimbleby said he feels he can speak openly about his frustrations now he is no longer working for DEFRA."After Boris Johnson's hospitalisation [with Covid-19 in 2020], they were going to restrict advertising of junk food to children. They're not going to do that. They're just not tackling it.
Obesity costs the NHS £6bn a year and this is set to rise to over £9.7bn each year by 2050, according to the government's own estimates. Evidence has also shown that the NHS spends around £10bn a year on diabetes - around 10% of its entire budget.More than half of the world's population will be overweight by 2035, obesity federation warns
Mr Dimbleby said the Tories would be wise to follow Winston Churchill's mantra that a country's greatest asset is its healthy citizens. He pointed to comments made by Andy Haldane, the former chief executive of the Bank of England, who said in November that the worsening health of the British people is holding back economic growth for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.
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