Britain will study whether the use of Eli Lilly's weight loss drug can get people back into work and help tackle the high rate of long-term sickness that has become a major drag on the economy.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Eli Lilly and Co’s Mounjaro could help improve the UK economy and lift pressures on the country’s beleaguered National Health Service,

Unemployed people could be given new weight loss jabs to help them get back into work, the Health Secretary has suggested. Wes Streeting said ‘widening waistbands’ were placing a burden on the NHS. He went on: ‘Our widening waistbands are also placing significant burden on our health service,

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said "widening waistbands" were placing a burden on the NHS and Ozempic or Mounjaro could be administered