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The Government's food tsar has quit to be able to criticise 'ultra-free-market ideology' which stops them from imposing restrictions on junk food.
Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby said that the Tories' lack of action against obesity risks creating more problems for the NHS.
'There is a concern that dealing with these issues could be seen to be 'nanny state' and plays badly in the 'red wall' constituencies,' he told the Sunday Times.
'That isn't the case, actually, but there is concern that we need to be celebrating the great British diets of fish and chips and curry and beer and that junk food is somehow patriotic.'
Mr Dimbleby, a staunch advocate for wider free school meal provision, resigned at the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs last week after five years in post.
Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby (pictured) told the Sunday Times that the Tories' lack of action against obesity risks creating more problems for the NHS.
His decision came after he
