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Good morning.

It's three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

We're in the course of today's program.

We will probably be returning to the vexed question

of Northern Ireland. The first male UK footballer in decades to come out as gay. I wish we didn't

have to talk about that. I dream of the day when we wouldn't be talking about that, because it

wouldn't be the first. It would be the 50th or the 500th, and it would cease to be a major issue or indeed a major story. But it is and so we

shall. But we begin. Well, here's a headline from today's times. Obesity U-turn is weak, shallow and

immoral. Now I wonder which touchy-feely, airy-fairy, lefty liberal politician or pundit or chef has come out with that headline.

Obesity U-turn is weak, shallow and immoral.

And it goes on to argue that it's the threat of letters of no confidence from backbench MPs

that has prompted Boris Johnson to see off a policy that might have turned around Britain's ruinously bad diet.

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