Wes Streeting denies ‘dystopian future’ over weight-loss jabs for unemployed

UK health secretary says people will not be involuntarily jabbed' but that medications could be gamechanging'

Wes Streeting has denied his plans to give new weight-loss jabs to unemployed people to help them back into work would result in a dystopian future" where overweight people would be involuntarily jabbed".

The UK health secretary acknowledged that weight-loss drugs were not, on their own, the answer to the nation's obesity crisis after he suggested this week that they could have a monumental" impact on getting more people working.