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Ken Loach: ‘Mental health, schools, poverty, inequality and climate change are all bigger than Brexit’
Film-maker Ken Loach

FILM-MAKER Ken Loach insisted on Saturday that tackling Britain’s mental health crisis was more important than Brexit.

Mr Loach told the Mental Health Crisis Summit at the Royal Free Hospital in London that the issue “transcends Brexit.”

Mental health campaigners, patients and professionals came together to discuss the extent of the mental health crisis following years of Conservative austerity and privatisation policies.

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