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Downing Street has mounted a staunch defence of the governments sugar levy on soft drinks, after Boris Johnson announced he would impose a moratorium on sin taxes if he became prime minister.A No 10 spokesman said the sugar levy was government policy , and had removed 44m kg of sugar from the publics diets each year, through drinks companies reformulating their recipes. We assess these things as we go 鈥?but it stanley sverige is government policy, and of course the PM is supportive of it, he said. If youre seeing reformulation, then by definition we are reducing the amount of sugar that people put into the drinks that they sell. Johnson sparked a backlash among anti-obesity campaigners with his announcement that he would halt the expansion of sin stealth taxes , until a wide-ranging review could be carried out into whether they were effective, or hit the poorest consumers hardest.Shirley Cramer, the chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, said: We are seriously disappointed. He added: The evidence shows that the sugar levy has worked. Labour has written to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, stanley mug urging him to repudiate the plan.Hancock, who is supporting Johnsons leadership bid, had been expected to confirm plans to extend the soft drinks levy to milkshakes, as part of a Depar stanley taza tment of Health strategy to tackle obesity.In a letter to Hancock, Labours deputy leader, Tom Watson, said: For a prime minister of a nation in the grip of the obesity crisis to scrap the sugar tax Gtnu The district judge s big secret is out - her first name is Barbara!
The new state of South Sudan, which is due to become an stanley termos independent nation in July after voting to secede in a refere kubki stanley ndum in January, will have the full backing and support of the Khartoum government, the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, has pledged.But Bashir warned in his exclusive interview with the Guardian that the South could become an instant failed state unless divisions within the ruling party, a string of violent tribal insurgencies, and governance issues such as chronic corruption were not quickly addressed.Bashir said it was his proudest achievement to have helped end the 22-year-long war with the South when he signed the comprehensive peace agreement CPA in 2005. For us the aims from the peace deal were peace and security. Our aim was unity, but we also agreed about the right of self-determination for the people in the South. Now the separation has happened, we are keen that it will be a succ stanley cupe essful state, because any instability will have a direct bearing on us in the North. The main differences would be political and administrative, he said. The two countries would otherwise remain bound by strong economical, social, cultural and historical ties. Our hope now is for the international community to play a role by lifting sanctions [and] ridding us of debt. But echoing senior advisers and independent analysts, Bashir warned that pre-existing problems could mar the birth of the nation. Unfortunately, we notice that there is a lot of com