Ministers should tax junk food to tackle Britain's obesity crisis and encourage healthier choices, Tony Blair has said.
Talking about the NHS, he said: "We've got to shift from a service that's treating people when they're ill to a service that is focused on well-being, on prevention, on how people live more healthy lives.
"The way of helping them do that, particularly with poor families, is to create the circumstances in which [they can choose healthier food]."The UK is Europe's fourth fattest nation, according to a World Health Organisation report, with the Health Survey for England 2021 estimating over 25% of adults are obese.
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