BBC Breakfast Host Presses Tory Minister On Suggestion GPs Fuel ‘Sick Note Culture’

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BBC Breakfast Host Presses Tory Minister On Suggestion GPs Fuel ‘Sick Note Culture’

BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty confronted Work And Pensions Secretary Mel Stride over the government’s by pressing the MP on whether the Tories were suggesting the current system is overdiagnosing unfitness to work. The heated interview came ahead of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing his plan for welfare reform and a clamp down on “sick note culture” in a speech warning against “over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of li…