Beware the cheese police

Let’s hope that Gordon Brown was too busy trying to hex Cameron this week to notice the story about the Sainsbury’s staff member who refused to sell a pregnant customer cheese.

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Druin Burch

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Let’s hope that Gordon Brown was too busy trying to hex Cameron this week to notice the story about the Sainsbury’s staff member who refused to sell a pregnant customer cheese. Sainsbury’s defence was that it might be bad for baby, but it’s just the sort of incident that gives our desperate Prime Minister ideas. For all Labour’s devotion to guidelines and chivvying, not many of their bossy initiatives have much effect on behaviour — warnings don’t stop smokers; tax doesn’t moderate our drinking. So why not introduce state intervention at the point of purchase instead?