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Why has the NHS collapsed? – Politics Weekly UK podcast

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The Sugar Tax

I'm a massive advocate for this. I think some of my former colleagues, if you're worried about the level of the tax burden in this country and then you're not prepared to tackle the rapidly growing demand on our health care system,. It makes no sense to me at all. We've got a rapidly aging population. We're going to have lots of people living with multiple conditions that's going to drive further demand on the system. And we need to look at diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol, obesity - all of these questions. The sugar tax didn't work by telling people not to buy sweet things or forcing them to pay more money if they did. What the effect it had

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