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Combination for advanced prostate cancer, mpox warning, wood burner pollution, and other stories Public health Poorer health is linked to votes for Reform UK People with poorer health are more likely to vote for the populist right wing political party Reform UK, showed a study published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 1 Researchers analysed voting patterns in England during the 2024 general election and looked at 20 common health outcomes in each constituency, including asthma, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, dementia, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.The five areas that returned a Reform UK MP had the highest average prevalence of 15 of those 20 health conditions.