Liquid butt lifts targeted in clampdown on England’s cosmetic ‘wild west’

Only qualified professionals would be able to offer high-risk BBL procedures and filler clinics would require licences

• The pain was unbearable': the agonising cost of England's cowboy' cosmetic clinics

Ministers have announced a clampdown on cowboy" cosmetic procedures, including liquid Brazilian butt lifts, with stricter rules on who is allowed to perform the procedures in England.

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, plans to introduce legislation next year restricting who can access and perform aesthetic treatments. Labour has warned that the industry is a wild west" because of a lack of regulation around who can administer treatments such as dermatological filler and Botox injections.