Food tsar says Tory approach to obesity will cause ‘huge harm’ as he quits

Henry Dimbleby resigns and lashes out at Tory inaction on junk food

Government accused of failing to act on junk food (PA)

A government adviser on food issues has quit the role after five years, saying the failure of the Conservatives to address the obesity will cause “huge harm”.

Henry Dimbleby, formerly the lead non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, announced his decision to quit over the weekend as he criticised the “insane” failure to act.

“I think the ideology of the Conservative Party and the way they are dealing with the problem of diet-related disease makes no sense,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.