national shame

Minister highlights "national shame" of the "forgotten million" chronically lonely

Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health, has made a speech highlighting what he will describe as the "national shame" of statistics that suggest that more than 800,000 people in the UK are "chronically lonely".

In a speech to the National Children's and Adults Services conference on Friday 18 October, Mr Hunt, whose wife is Chinese, contrasted the "reverence and respect for...