Boris Johnson boasts of coronavirus weight loss but 'rules out' tax to fight obesity

mirror.co.uk:

Boris Johnson has lost almost a stone and a half since nearly dying from coronavirus, he revealed today. But he appeared to rule out new taxes to help fight Britain's obesity epidemic.

The Prime Minister was said to have tipped the scales at 17-and-a-half stone after gorging on “late night binges of chorizo and cheese”.

But his brush with death in April helped him shed the weight – and has inspired a new fight against obesity. "I'm down a stone and five pounds on where I was before I went into ICU.

But I've got a long way to go," he told the Sunday Telegraph. "If you lose weight, you feel better, you really do feel better.