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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helen Pidd and Lucy Hough

‘I didn’t expect to win’: Labour’s new MPs adjusting to Commons life

Peter examines an older man in his surgery
As well as being the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, Peter Prinsley is an eminent ENT surgeon. Photograph: Joshua Bright/The Guardian

It is a sunny day in Norfolk and Peter Prinsley, the first Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, is about to look up the nostrils of a 90-year-old man. But before he can get out his microscope to look for the cause of the man’s chronic nosebleeds, his patient has something to say.

“Congratulations on your appointment!” says Tony Wilkin, as he lies down on the examination bed in Prinsley’s consultation room at James Paget university hospital in Great Yarmouth.

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