He disagrees with Tony Blair's comments that many people self-diagnose depression and feels the remarks are dismissive of a real mental health crisis.

“I think there's a danger that he doesn't understand that for a lot of people depression is real anxiety is real and I think that particularly with the the numbers now of people living in poverty and millions of people now that we would say are living in pretty difficult economic conditions I think i”

He argues that an increase in disability benefits in Britain needs to be addressed as part of managing the economy and workforce productivity.

“Britain is facing an incredible explosion in the costs of disability benefits to the government and there are nearly 900,000 people in Britain almost a million people who are out of the workforce and part of this seems to be I think a 50% jump since covid in the number of people who are being diagno”