SUPERMARKETS will be banned from selling chocolate at checkouts in an obesity blitz.
Buy one get one free offers on junk food could also be outlawed.
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Restaurants may be forced to print the calories of meals on menus under plans being considered by Boris Johnson.
It follows a decision to let GPs prescribe Weight Watchers courses for tubby Brits.
Mr Johnson, 56, wants to put the nation — Europe’s third fattest — on a diet.
It is a U-turn for the PM, who is slimming after blaming his bulk for his life-threatening Covid-19 fight.
It is twice as likely to kill the very obese as the slim.
Fitness guru Joe Wickes visited No10 this week to discuss the keep-fit drive.
Annabel Denham, from the Institute of Economic Affairs think-tank, said: “These ideas aren’t new, but they remain ill-thought out, expensive, and will likely be entirely ineffective.”
She said banning price promotions would “hurt thrifty shoppers, regardless of whether they are ‘living with obesity’.”
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