Proposals to give weight loss jabs to unemployed people living with obesity could be "very important" for our economy and health, the prime minister has told the BBC. Sir Keir Starmer said while he acknowledged that more money was needed for the NHS the government also needed to "think differently" to ease pressure on the health system.

Weight-loss jabs are “not the holy grail”, the NHS medical director has said. Prof Sir Stephen Powis said the drugs would be a “revolutionary” part of the approach that Britain takes to obesity. But he said the country “cannot simply treat our way out of the obesity crisis”,