Layla Moran

Layla Moran

Liberal Democrat — Oxford West and Abingdon

Speaking in the House of Commons on 12 November 2026

Debate

Tackling Obesity

Contribution

I am extremely grateful to the Committee member for his question—he is absolutely right. We had a roundtable with lived experience witnesses and they all said the same thing. Even though many had had aspects of treatment over the years and had tried every conceivable diet, what was disheartening was that they would go to their GP and face that wider stigma from the GP themselves, who would tell them that they just needed to tweak things in their modern life. It just does not work that way. Naming it as a relapsing-remitting condition, putting it up there as the public health challenge it is and focusing in on it in the way that we are so good at doing when we want to in this House is the answer—I completely agree with him.

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