everything in their power to secure the release of two british men sentenced to death for fighting russian forces. the government is expected to reject proposals to introduce a new salt and sugar tax on process food sold in england. the maximum interest rate on student loans in england is being cut by almost 5%. ministers hope it will provide peace of mind for graduates. a father and son have been killed in a crash at the isle of man tt. five riders have died in this year s event and singerjustin bieber reveals the reason he cancelled his performances this week he s experiencing facial paralysis. good afternoon. royal officials have said that prince charles remains politically neutral , following a report that he has strongly criticised plans to send some asylum seekers to rwanda. an unnamed source told the times newspaper that prince charles has described the policy as appalling and said he was more than disappointed by it. the first flight carrying asylum seekers
and sugar tax on process food sold in england. a father and son have been killed in a crash at the isle of man tt. five riders have died in this year s event as you can see, this eye is not blinking. and singerjustin bieber reveals the reason he cancelled his performances this week he s experiencing facial paralysis. good afternoon. royal officials have said that prince charles remains politically neutral , following a report that he has strongly criticised plans to send some asylum seekers to rwanda. an unnamed source told the times newspaper that prince charles has described the policy as appalling and said he was more than disappointed by it. the first flight carrying asylum seekers to rwanda is due to leave on tuesday. simonjones reports. their destination, dover. more than 10,000 migrants have reached the uk in small that so far this year. boats so far this year. the government says it is determined to stop people risking their lives crossing the channel and to
tax on sugar, tax on salt. the government s position, essentially, seems to be you can t do that in the middle of a cost of living crisis, it is going to put more on the cost of basic foodstuffs, people simply can t afford those extra costs. well, the sugar tax would apply to foodstuffs that are very bad foreigners that make us unwell. that make us overweight. so i think it is a bit of an excuse. it is a real shame for this government because i think it was the former chancellor george osborne who, in the early years of this government, who was very courageous who faced down some very courageous who faced down some very powerful lobby interests and threats of legal action to introduce the first sugar tax on fizzy pop and the first sugar tax on fizzy pop and the reason that was significant is nearly one third of our children are leaving primary school either overweight or obese and their biggest source of sugar back then was drinking pop every day and what
opponents were secretly very admiring of him for having the courage to set the country down this road. it would be a shame that ten years until conservative government they miss out on those great reforming measures they may need all that time ago so it is a missed opportunity. i can see the concern. anyone would be worried about the cost of living crisis but given that the products with high sugar makers more unhealthy and are not good for the family shopping bag in general i think it is probably a fake argument to say this is all about cost of living. it is probably more to do with the government under intense pressure from a very powerful lobby interests. and i wrote my book downsizing which talked about how i lost all the weight i introduced a nutritional scientist in america who told me that coca cola spend $100 million globally to try to reduce measures to take sugar out of our diet. it is very hard for even a
actually former chancellor, george osborne, in the early years of this 0sborne, in the early years of this government, he was very courageous, he faced down some very powerful lobby interests and threats of legal action to introduce the first sugar tax on fizzy pop. the reason that was significant as nearly a third of our children are leaving primary school either overweight and obese, their biggest source of sugar back then was drinking pop every day. what that immediately did was make the producers reformulate their products to avoid paying the tax. there were some household name drinks that basically took 40% of their sugar out of the formula for their sugar out of the formula for their drinks overnight. i think george osborne will probably be responsible for saving many thousands of lives for that intervention. what the dimbleby report is saying that actually you could deploy the ideas behind that sugar levy two more very high sugar products that would force those big global produc