Celebrities and the elite have flocked to private healthcare companies to get their hands on a drug which promises thinness. People are spending as much as thousands on Ozempic and other weight-loss jabs, even with no medical need for them. And not just in Los Angeles.

Here in Britain, an estimated 1.5 million people use these drugs, 95% of whom have gone private. Only 200,000 people are receiving weight-loss drugs on the NHS .

Yet millions of people across the country are battling with obesity and unable to afford Ozempic or similar drugs, which generally cost between £100 and £350 a month. Just under two thirds of the population are obese or overweight, and poverty is a known driver of this, with healthy food often too expensive or difficult to access.

The UK government recently

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