Jamie Oliver accuses Prime Minister of failing children over obesity strategy

Jamie Oliver has accused the Prime Minister Theresa May of letting down the nation’s kids with her obesity plan.
The chef, who has campaigned tirelessly for the government to curb the amount of junk food adverts and ban sweets at supermarket checkouts, slammed the PM for doing a “terrible job” after the government ditched plans to ban advertisements for junk food before 9pm watershed and wnt back on its promise to ban unhealthy food from supermarket checkouts.
In an interview with Britain’s Radio Times on Tuesday (13Sept16), Oliver raged: “It’s a terrible job Theresa May’s done there. Unforgivable. She’s completely let down every child in Britain, let parents down, everyone’s been let down.
“Everything about the childhood obesity strategy that’s just come out is a complete stinking herring. The stuff on the shelf with her predecessor was going to be much more robust.”
Instead, food manufacturers can voluntarily choose whether they wish to reduce the level of sugar by a fifth in products such as cereals, yoghurts, sweets and desserts by 2020.
Oliver, 41, who has five children with wife Jools, slammed the failure of the new strategy to tackle those key points but he did praise the proposed 24p ($0.32) tax on litre bottles of sugary drinks.
“Take that out, there’s nothing. It’s the same old bull that hasn’t worked for 20 years. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not slagging her off for the sake of it,” he ranted to the publication. “I wanted her to act not like a politician, but a parent,” before admitting he did not know that Mrs May was not a parent herself.
Oliver is keen to speak to the PM, but it seems she is less so.
“I’m happy to see her at any point. But her people have locked down all communications… I don’t know if she’s going to want to talk to me because I’ve nothing nice to say – nothing,” he added.
Top TV chef Oliver fronts the Food Revolution campaign which was set up to improve child access to nutritious food. His petition of 100,000 people forced the debate to be heard in the House of Lords.