UK’s childhood obesity strategy - an EU blueprint?

Friday (18 August) marks the first anniversary of the UK’s childhood obesity strategy, but there’s little to celebrate according to public health campaigners.

Could the criticisms levied at politicians in Westminster put their counterparts in other European countries off the idea too?

Just last week, the influential healthy eating campaigner and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver claimed the UK’s plan was “awful”.

"What’s even more scary is that when May [the prime minister] rele...