{"id":100111,"date":"2019-07-03T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/03\/no-10-defends-sugar-levy-after-johnson-vows-to-review-sin-taxes\/"},"modified":"2019-07-03T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:52:32","slug":"no-10-defends-sugar-levy-after-johnson-vows-to-review-sin-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=100111","title":{"rendered":"No 10 defends sugar levy after Johnson vows to review &#039;sin taxes&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tory leadership hopeful\u2019s comments outrage anti-obesity campaignersDowning Street has mounted a staunch defence of the government\u2019s sugar levy on soft drinks, after Boris Johnson announced he would impose a moratorium on \u201csin taxes\u201d if he became prime minister.A No 10 spokesman said the sugar levy was \u201cgovernment policy\u201d, and had removed 44m kg of sugar from the public\u2019s diets each year, through drinks companies reformulating their recipes. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/jul\/03\/labour-urges-hancock-to-oppose-johnsons-sugar-tax-review-boris-johnson-tom-watson-matt-hancock\" target=\"_blank\">No 10 defends sugar levy after Johnson vows to review &#039;sin taxes&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tory leadership hopeful\u2019s comments outrage anti-obesity campaignersDowning Street has mounted a staunch defence of the government\u2019s sugar levy on soft drinks, after Boris Johnson announced he would impose a moratorium on \u201csin taxes\u201d if he became prime minister.A No 10 spokesman said the sugar levy was \u201cgovernment policy\u201d, and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}