Ann Widdecombe Versus…

In her own inimitable style, Ann Widdecombe gets to grips with two thorny, thoroughly modern issues — the diet industry and girl gangs.

Widdy doesn’t believe in diets. She reckons all you need to stay fit is to eat less and move more, and so prepares to challenge the billion-pound diet industry.

She meets some Slimmers of the Year, who went on to pile the pounds back on afterwards, and tackles what she perceives as the “downright irresponsibility and cruelty” of magazines and newspapers – many of which she sees as buying into the slimming industry, with damaging results to the body image of young women.