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It is time the government treated hunger and obesity as two interlinked problems | Letter

The cabinet committee the MPs want should become the delivery arm of a statutory right to adequate food, writes Prof Kent Buse of the World Obesity Federation Your report ( UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn, 30…

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The cabinet committee the MPs want should become the delivery arm of a statutory right to adequate food, writes Prof Kent Buse of the World Obesity Federation Your report ( UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn, 30 October ) arrives a fortnight after the Right to Food UK Commission asked the same prime minister for the same thing: a legal duty on government, a minister responsible for it, and an independent body reporting to parliament.

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