His comments come after Health Secretary Wes Streeting wrote in an opinion piece for the Telegraph that “our widening waistbands” are “holding back our economy” and that weight loss injections could help the unemployed find jobs.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been lambasted for his "unfair" move to trial weight loss jabs with unemployed Britons, as GB News host Andrew Pierce stated that the latest Labour initiative is "punishing hard-working Britons".

Weight-loss jabs should not be used as an excuse for people to give up on healthy living, the Health Secretary has said. With two in three Britons classed as overweight or obese, experts say the injections are a crucial weapon in tackling Britain’s obesity epidemic,