In today’s newsletter: As new rules ban TV and online ads for high-fat, salt and sugar products, the curbing of junk food marketing has found cross-party support
Good morning. The television and online advertising landscape changed yesterday, as regulations came into force across the UK limiting the amount of “less healthy” food and drink products that can be shown during the daytime and online, in an attempt to reduce obesity in the UK.
For today’s newsletter I spoke to William Roberts, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, about restricting advertising on these types of food – a policy aimed at reducing children’s exposure to junk food marketing – what the ban means for the snack industry, and whether this type of government intervention can have a positive impact. Here are the headlines.
Venezuela | The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to drugs, weapons and narco-terrorism charges on Monday, two days after his shock capture by US special forces.
UK politicsKeir Starmer has publicly backed the Danish prime minister after she demanded Donald Trump stop threats to forcibly take over Greenland.
ImmigrationEighty “one in, one out” asylum seekers have accused the UK of degrading treatment leading to “severe psychological harm”.
France | A Paris court has convicted 10 people of online harassment over false social media claims that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, was a man.
US politicsKamala Harris’s running mate during the 2024 US elections, Tim Walz, will not run for a third term as Minnesota governor.
