With Britain “significantly fatter” than other nations, the government will look at interventions to stem obesity, Boris Johnson said Monday
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In his third live broadcast interview of 2020, the prime minister told Times Radio he was rethinking his “libertarian stance” on public health after his fight with coronavirus left him in intensive care.attributed his tough battle with the disease to his weight, which topped 110 kilos when he went into hospital. He has woken up to the idea that the government must help Brits lose weight. He said options for intervention will be looked at closely.
"I have taken a very libertarian stance,” he said. “But when you compare us to other countries, we are significantly fatter — apart from the Maltese, for some reason.” Turning to the British economy post-coronavirus, Johnson said it was “the moment for a Rooseveltian approach” in the U.K. — in reference to the U.S. "New Deal" of the 1930s, which saw massive public investment in building and reform.The PM also admitted the pandemic had been a "disaster" and an "absolute nightmare" for Britain, which currently has a third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world.
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