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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Victoria Richards

Voices: We’ve stopped arguing about Brexit – now we’re arguing about weight-loss drugs, instead

It used to be the case that Brexit – and we’ve just passed the 10th anniversary of the biggest disaster in modern politics – caused the “big divide”.

Families were riven; Christmas dinner politics became teary, awful affairs. For those of us who staunchly voted Remain, seeing our loved ones fooled by the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson (especially after, predictably, their promises turned out to be nothing but a load of hot air) was a deeply bitter pill to swallow. But now there’s a new pill (or jab) to contend with: the stigma of weight-loss drugs. And just like Brexit, it’s tearing people apart.

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