The National Food Strategy led by Henry Dimbleby was commissioned by government to set out a vision and a plan for a better food system. Today, Part Two of the strategy has been published.

It contains three key objectives, minimising the consumption of junk food to reduce its impact on the NHS and eradicating obesity-related inequality, transforming effective use of UK land to protect the environment, and developing long-term improvements in developing a health based food culture.

The report is clear in the need for urgent reduction in the consumption of both sugar and salt being fundamental to improvements across its strategy. Proposing a tax on both sugar and salt to raise £3.4 billion a year for the exchequer to fund growth in the provision of free school meals.