UK delays ban on supermarket junk food deals and pre-watershed ads

PM accused of playing politics' with children's health after measures postponed due to cost of living crisis

The government is to delay a ban on buy one get one free" deals on junk food and a pre-9pm watershed for TV advertising, as Boris Johnson puts the cost of living crisis before a promise to tackle the UK's growing obesity problem.

The prime minister is understood to have decided to delay the implementation of the policies by at least a year - and potentially scrap them altogether - after chairing a ministerial meeting seeking ideas to help alleviate the cost of living crisis on Wednesday.