Wes Streeting: ‘half my colleagues’ in Commons using weight loss drugs

Wes Streeting said weight loss jabs were ‘the talk of the House of Commons’. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Weight loss injections are the “talk of the House of Commons tea rooms” and widely used by MPs, the health secretary has said as he pledged to widen public access to them.

Speaking as the government launches a 10-year-plan for the NHS, Wes Streeting said access to weight loss injections should be “based on need and not the ability to pay”.