Food poverty report calls for a ‘junk food’ tax to subsidise healthy diets

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The proposal comes in a report today by the Food Foundation, which finds one in seven households with children are struggling to afford food

A report by influential government advisers has called for Labour’s new food strategy to introduce a levy on HFSS food categories beyond soft drinks.

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