The first female MP to represent Lagan Valley said she would be “fighting tooth and nail” to make sure the NHS is funded adequately
A newly elected MP has called for cancer diagnoses to be put back on the political agenda after speaking about her husband’s battle with a rare form of blood cancer.
“Just two of those people are alive today, and that’s in a year. And one of these people that was diagnosed in the was my husband, who was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer. “I certainly will be fighting tooth and nail to make sure that it remains the way it was meant to be, so that we don’t underfund it and gaslight the patients who need it and staff who are working in it.”
“And they didn’t mean ‘one of us’ in the Northern Irish sense of the past, they meant somebody who grew up in the same street as me, somebody who had the same social problems, somebody who knew what it was like to work a minimum wage job – strong, dignified people.
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