Tory MP raises issue of obesity
Caroline Nokes, the Conservative chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, raised the topic of obesity during PMQs.
She said the prime minister “knows better than most that Covid has an unequal impact on the BAME community, on the elderly, on men and indeed on the overweight”.
Ms Nokes went to ask Mr Johnson what the government was doing to prevent fat-shaming and to allow people to take control of their wellbeing, after the country’s over-reliance on the “inaccurate measure” of BMI.
The prime minister said the government would announce a strategy to tackle obesity but did not give any further details.
He also said Britons were “considerably fatter than most other European nations, apart from the Maltese”.
