UK’s biggest killer is now dementia, so the Government MUST put more resources towards fighting it

BRITAIN’S biggest killer has no known cure.

Today The Sun calls on the Government and drugs firms to put the maximum resources available into combating dementia, a disease that was responsible for more than 61,000 deaths in the UK last year.

With Brits living longer, dementia has now surpassed heart disease as the top cause of death.

This is partly due to better detection and diagnosis, but the fact remains that in 2016 nobody survives a diagnosis of dementia.

We can be proud that our Government has been at the forefront of battling the disease. Last year David Cameron pledged £300million for dementia research and led the way with extra training for NHS staff and education for the general public.

But despite this pledge, public spending on dementia trails far behind other terminal illnesses, and drugs companies are loath to invest in curing a disease that won’t deliver big profits.

As we start to see small victories against other previously incurable conditions such as cancer and heart disease, we need to put all we can into finding ways to stop or slow dementia.

This is the biggest medical challenge of our lifetime – we must step up.

Hit for Six

IF the Big Six energy firms are serious about valuing customers, they must stop lying and cough up to their cover-up.

We revealed yesterday that energy companies were making up to £272 in profit per customer.

Those figures were omitted from a published version of a report by trade body Energy UK, whose boss spent yesterday trying desperately to defend his shoddy deception.

But the facts are clear: Energy UK realised firms were making profits SEVEN times more than they’d claimed and buried the evidence.

Time for the Government to step in and show the Big Six what taking responsibility really looks like.

Vaz a bad joke

DISGRACED Keith Vaz is making a complete mockery of Parliament.

The shamed Labour MP had already been elected to the powerful Justice Select Committee, despite facing a police probe over allegations he discussed buying drugs with male escorts.

Shockingly Vaz has now been appointed to scrutinise a crime bill in the Commons.

It’s absurd and wrong for Parliament to have a suspected criminal assessing crime policy.

MPs must vote to kick Vaz off these committees until the police investigation has concluded.