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  "id": 12835908,
  "title": "Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/covid-brexit-and-liz-truss-mini-budget-led-to-lasting-decline-in-12835908",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-08T09:00:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/08/covid-brexit-liz-truss-mini-budget-lasting-decline-mental-health-uk-study"
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  "summary": "Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK Brexit, Liz Truss’s mini-budget and other “shocks” over the last 10 years have led to a serious and lasting deterioration in the UK population’s mental health, research has found . Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the first and second Covid lockdowns also triggered big rises…",
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        "outlet": "Guardian Health",
        "title": "Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/covid-brexit-and-liz-truss-mini-budget-led-to-lasting-decline-in",
        "published": "2026-10-08T09:00:16.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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