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Prime minister to say in speech there is risk of ‘over-medicalising everyday challenges and worries of life’ while Labour calls announcement ‘cheap headline’
It has been heavily trailed and I have already put some excerpts from it in the blog, but Rishi Sunak is about to speak at the Centre for Social Justice in London. I will bring you the key lines as they emerge. He is being introduced by Iain Duncan Smith, who set the centre up twenty years ago.
There was also some Labour reaction to the advanced notice of what Rishi Sunak is to say about what he calls “sicknote culture” from Alison McGovern, Labour’s acting shadow work and pensions secretary
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