Tory leadership hopeful’s comments outrage anti-obesity campaignersDowning Street has mounted a staunch defence of the government’s sugar levy on soft drinks, after Boris Johnson announced he would impose a moratorium on “sin taxes” if he became prime minister.A No 10 spokesman said the sugar levy was “government policy”, and had removed 44m kg of sugar from the public’s diets each year, through drinks companies reformulating their recipes. Continue reading…
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