Firms will be banned from advertising junk foods like sausages rolls and fish fingers online, under new plans
FIRMS will be banned from advertising sausage rolls, fish fingers and pasties online, ministers are set to announce today.
The move will bar all junk food ads from the internet to tackle obesity.
Campaigners warned that even spreads such as Marmite and mustard could be hit by the ban.
But it comes days after kids were effectively banned from playing sport during lockdown.
Matt Kilcoyne, of the Adam Smith Institute, said: “Not content with having shut down the economy for months, now public health nannies want to shutter every shop in the country in their quest to remove every bit of happiness and joy from people's lives.
“This ad ban plan threatens every food business and every great British product that fails their impossible test.
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“No more fish and chips, no more Cadbury's chocolate, no more pork pies and stilton.
“Far from new restrictions British retailers and consumers need new freedoms, and the government needs to reject the insanity of this suggestion that threatens to ruin the recovery after this pandemic ends.”
He called on government to reject the plans.
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