Sir Keir Starmer has signalled that he will bring in further 'nanny state' measures to help prevent ill health.
Sir Keir Starmer has signalled that he will bring in further ‘nanny state’ measures to help prevent ill health.
Asked if he was looking at taxing ultra-processed foods, or the salt and sugar content in products or increasing labelling to improve the public’s health, he did not directly respond. ‘Now that’s what led us down the road of supervised tooth brushing, which some people said, well, “that’s the nanny state.”
Health Secretary Wes Streeting appeared to back the PM’s suggestion of introducing further nanny state measures, saying: ‘There’s always those choices and trade-offs about the benefits to public health, and then you know potential downsides that people raise, either believing that it’s too far an encroachment on people’s lives and liberties, or that it might impact on businesses, and you always have to weigh these things up, and we’ll do that.
The website - change.NHS.uk - descended into farce yesterday as the public suggested installing a dog as health secretary, installing a Wetherspoons in every pub - and bringing back Matt Hancock.
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