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Rishi Sunak said Britain’s economy was bouncing back after the latest official figures showed the number of workers on payrolls surged in June by 356,000, my colleague Larry Elliott reports.
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Good morning. As Patrick Butler and Damian Carrington report, this morning an independent review commissioned by the government is proposing a £3bn sugar and salt tax as part of a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to break Britain’s addiction to junk food, cut meat consumption by nearly a third and help tackle climate change. The review, the National Food Strategy, is here, and here is our report on what it says.
Related: Food strategy calls for £3bn sugar and salt tax to improve UK’s diet
I think you have to be very cautious before putting burdens on members of the public, particularly those on lower incomes. I do think you have to be very careful about going down that route because I don’t want to make life more difficult for people on low incomes.
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