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Daily Mirror
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Florence Freeman

MP calls out Tory Government for failing to address Black maternal deaths

A Labour MP is demanding the Government set a target to reduce the number of black mothers dying during labour.

Bell Ribeiro-Addy accused ministers of not doing enough even though black women are four times more likely to die during childbirth.

“Unfortunately, you have Ministers who say things like ‘well the numbers aren't significant enough’. And now, we’ve got to a place where they’re saying that they're looking at [the figures], but looking at it is nothing in my view.”

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