Miliband: Mental health is a taboo which must be broken

It is a taboo which not only blights the lives of millions but also puts severe strain on the funding of our NHS and threatens Britain's ability to pay our way in the world.

It is a taboo which must be broken if we are to rebuild Britain as one nation.

The last Labour government began to transform mental health provision. It made well-respected, evidenced-based therapies available to more people than ever before.

Taking mental health treatment into communities that had never received them before. We need to do all we can now to protect those programmes now.