A biscuit tax ‘would work’

TAXING chocolate, cakes and biscuits would reduce sales by 7 per cent and slim the nation’s waistline, according to a study.

A 10 per cent tax would encourage us to ditch other unhealthy items too, research by Oxford and Cambridge Universities found.

The study, also by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and published in the journal BMJ Open, tracked 32,000 households over two years.