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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

Unregulated botox becoming ‘health crisis’, MP warns as petition launched

Dr Roshan Ravindran launched a petition on the UK Parliament website last week (Alamy/PA) -

Unregulated botox on the high street is “an emergent healthcare crisis”, a Conservative MP has warned days after a doctor launched fresh calls to tackle an aesthetics “wild west”.

Bradley Thomas told the Commons that demand for non-surgical and aesthetic treatments is “partially fuelled by social media and societal pressures on young people”.

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