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Later on in this episode, we're going to talk about this article that's been written in the Telegraph today by the health secretary Wes streeting, where he announces that the government and the NHS are teaming up with the pharmaceutical company to do a study to see whether this new generation of weight loss drugs, which people say are absolutely revolutionary, can actually be used to help people to get back into work because they've not been able to work because of weight related reasons.
Now, I find this absolutely fascinating because it feels to me like the first moment in our politics where the rubber is hitting the road when it comes to these new drugs, which all the experts and all the ethicists and all the observers say are potentially going to revolutionize all our lives.
So this, at last, is a point at which we can talk about maybe one of the practical consequences other than just stuff like how much does it cost?
How much has it improved the GDP of Denmark, where one of them was invented, or which celebrities have got really, really skinny all of a sudden?
And so who's taking it?
Or which politician is taking it?
So we will do a deep dive into that as well as catching up with.
Yeah, Kirstarmer's done another interview.
That's on this episode of newscast, newscast.
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