UK's Truss won't impose taxes on unhealthy food

Liz Truss, the frontrunner to become the next UK prime minister, said she wouldn't impose new taxes on unhealthy food items, but she plans to restrict multi-buy deals on food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar.

Soft drinks high in sugar are already taxed in the UK, but because of the cost-of-living crisis, it has banned deals on deals such as buy one get one free on food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar, which was to be adopted in May, but has been delayed until October 2023.

Is there any way someone should buy a two-for-one offer? There is definitely enough of that, according to Truss to the Daily Mail.

She stated that the British people want the government to focus on things like delivering good transport links, communications infrastructure and cutting National Health Service waiting lists, and they do not want the government telling them what to eat. In the polls of the Conservative Party members who are going to elect their new leader and country's next prime minister, Truss leads her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak.

In June, John Allan, chairman of Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket group, criticized the government of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson for not being consistent on such legislation, including anti-obesity policies.