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Weight Loss Jabs for Jobs?

Health Secretary says jabs could be given to help people get back into work.

Today, could weight loss drugs be used to help unemployed people get back to work?

In an interview outside Number 10, The PM has told Henry that weight loss jabs would be 鈥渧ery helpful鈥 to people who want to lose weight. It follows comments from the Health Secretary Wes Streeting that jabs could be given to help people get back into work.

Adam speaks to Henry about his interview with the prime minister. Plus, Professor Giles Yeo, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, and Katherine Jenner, director of the Obesity Healthy Alliance join Adam to discuss whether the approach to getting people back into employment could work.

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