Reading the recent announcements from public health minister Steve Brine about the new trailblazer programme to tackle childhood obesity, I couldn’t help wonder whether there is any joined-up policy thinking taking place on domestic matters while the shadow of Brexit looms large over the country.

Any new money is welcomed by local government, alongside the ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030. But a competition where local authorities can bid to be one of five winners who will receive £100,000 a year for three years to come up with ideas around active lifestyles and healthy eating isn’t going to push back the tide on the problem when a tsunami of cuts is coming in the other direction.