Insular loneliness

Published on 25 January 2018 at 18:13

Prime minister Theresa May appointed Tracey Crouch on January 17, her minister for sport and civil society, to address issues connected to loneliness, a phenomenon affecting 9 million people in Britain. This appointment follows one of the main recommandations of a report issued by the Jo Cox Commission, named in honor of Jox Cox's work, the Labour MEP who was murdered on June 16 by a right wing extremist during the referendum campaign on Brexit.

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