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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

MP's moving speech on growing up with deaf parents - 'I booked family holiday aged four'

A Labour MP has described the "unbelievable pressure" of speaking to doctors as a 15-year-old to find out if her deaf mother had breast cancer.

In an emotional Commons speech, Rosie Cooper spoke of the "huge challenges" her parents faced to be heard and how she had to "grow up fast" to help them.

Her dad was born deaf, while her mum lost her hearing at the age of 4-years-old.

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