Childhood Obesity Strategy: Chapter 2

Philip Davies Excerpts

Monday 25th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Steve Brine]

That is an easy one to agree with. Tesco has been doing that for years, and my children regularly avail themselves of the opportunity.

[Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)]

May I urge the Minister not to get into some nanny state, socialist claptrap arms race with the Opposition parties, which will never be satisfied, as we heard earlier from the shadow Secretary of State? May I remind the Minister that he is actually supposed to be a Conservative and urge him to think about this from a Conservative standpoint, which focuses on things like parental responsibility and not seeking to ban anything that moves?

[Steve Brine]

I am very pleased that my hon. Friend made that very helpful contribution. I am a Conservative—I said so in my opening remarks—but at the end of the day this is a publicly funded health service that we all believe in and all love. If we want it to celebrate its 140th birthday, we need to protect it, and that means getting serious about prevention and stopping people coming into the service and getting sick. Everyone in the House—Conservative, Labour and everyone in between—should get behind that.