The most vulnerable mental health patients have been failed by the government after it shelved a bill to reform the Mental Health Act, a long-standing Tory MP has said.
Sir Charles Walker, a long-term advocate for mental health services who has spoken about his own battles living with obsessive compulsive disorder, criticised Rishi Sunak for failing to bring forward legislation in the King’s Speech to “modernise” the 40-year-old act, despite it being a key plank of the Conservative Party manifesto in 2019.
