Profile: Anna Soubry
The FT’s Sally Gainsbury profiles a public health minister caught between a rock and a hard place: Vilified for her robust opinions and challenged by delays in public health reform
Anna Soubry MP has been described by the Independent’s Simon Carr as having “a record of unusually free speech”. She’s unlikely to disagree: the self-proclaimed “tough bird” in the Department of Health, she announced upon her appointment – with characteristic disregard for political correctness – that the post is “not a soft girly option”.
And soft it certainly is not, with a slew of gritty problems to tackle: rising obesity rates, a stubborn prevalence of smoking among some social groups, and growing evidence about the harm of alcohol misuse, as well as hospitals bursting at the seams as a consequence...
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