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Soft drinks trade body sponsored Tory drinks party attended by business secretary Greg Clark.
The soft drinks industry has intensified its lobbying of the government to scrap or water down George Osborne’s sugar tax ahead of the autumn statement, sponsoring a drinks party for Tory MPs and the business secretary, as well as bombarding political websites with advertising.
Health campaigners in favour of the proposed soft drinks industry levy said they are concerned that neither Theresa May nor Philip Hammond has personally spoken out in support of the tax since coming to office, delegating its implementation to a junior minister instead.
The Children’s Food Campaign said the soft drinks industry believes it has an opportunity to push for the levy to be watered down because of the change of government, meaning it is pulling out all the stops in a big-spending campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...try-lobbies-government-dilute-scrap-sugar-tax
The soft drinks industry has intensified its lobbying of the government to scrap or water down George Osborne’s sugar tax ahead of the autumn statement, sponsoring a drinks party for Tory MPs and the business secretary, as well as bombarding political websites with advertising.
Health campaigners in favour of the proposed soft drinks industry levy said they are concerned that neither Theresa May nor Philip Hammond has personally spoken out in support of the tax since coming to office, delegating its implementation to a junior minister instead.
The Children’s Food Campaign said the soft drinks industry believes it has an opportunity to push for the levy to be watered down because of the change of government, meaning it is pulling out all the stops in a big-spending campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...try-lobbies-government-dilute-scrap-sugar-tax
