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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Richard Wheeler

MP shares experience of daughter’s eating disorder amid appeal for support

Labour MP Perran Moon (House of Commons/UK Parliament) -

An MP has made an emotional appeal to improve eating disorder support as he said his experiences with his daughter left an “indelible stain on my soul”.

Perran Moon described how his daughter had been “clutched” by anorexia, but she could only qualify for life-saving support if she became critically ill and was “staring death in the face”.

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