Andrew Selous: The suggestion voters weren’t consulted on LTNs is wrong. Local elections suggest they approve.

Tory candidates in London, Manchester and Oxfordshire made their opposition to these schemes known. It didn’t win us votes.

A big question for libertarians: what would they do about obesity?

This ideology celebrates willpower, yet scientific research challenges how much of it we have when making dietary choices.

Morgan Schondelmeier: The Government’s ban on junk food adverts before 9pm is regressive and infantilising

This highly interventionist strategy lacks evidence, and is hardly a Conservative approach.

Hollywood’s erasure of Cruella de Vil’s smoking habit is pointless and dull. Companies, and the state, must stop telling people what to do.

This ‘nudge’ instinct is all too common in corporations, which view themselves as guiding forces on health, morality, politics, and actually most things.

Jason Reed: Obesity rates are at a critical point. But campaigners’ plans to tackle the issue are deeply flawed.

Children’s health is too often weaponised as a justification for pushing through all sorts of unnecessary new punitive taxes and regulations.

Jordan Redshaw: Our party needs a strong pro-cycling measures to rebuild in cities

Johnson, Street, and Houchen have all embraced the bike, and reaped the rewards both for the party and the nation.

Sarah Ingham: Fat is a lockdown issue

The State continues to restrict personal freedom in a bid, it claims, to save life, while trying to avoid spelling out the risks to life caused by excess weight.

Shifting health policy leftwards?

A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.

John Stevenson: The Government’s obesity strategy risks punishing businesses – when they need help most

New proposals will stifle the food and drink industry, which has played a vital role in supporting the country through the pandemic.

George Freeman: Ministers need to make Covid a catalyst for a serious community health crusade

We face a perfect storm of obesity, diabetes, dementia, and an epidemic of cardio-respiratory disease in our most economically vulnerable communities

Dolly Theis: What can Conservative history teach us about tackling obesity?

The second part of the author’s mini-series of three articles on obesity policy for ConservativeHome this week.

Dolly Theis: Why Government policy on obesity affects us all

The final part of a mini-series of three articles on obesity policy for ConservativeHome this week.

James Frayne: Public support for the Government appears to have dropped – but not when it comes to individual policies

People strongly back it banning separate households meeting indoors where infection rates have risen, among other moves.

There is more than a hint of moral coercion in the way ministers have addressed us in the name of the NHS

If politicians stopped pretending to an almost totalitarian infallibility, and encouraged the rest of us to show what we can do, the results would be better.

Darren Grimes: “Hey folks, eat out and spend more – no, not you, fatty. And here’s a new tax for you, consumer-friendly online retailer.”

We should have a laser-like focus on reducing the tax burden, instead of relying on nannying to get us off of our bottoms.