Ex-Labour MP Frank Field is terminally ill
 

Sad news.


[It said that he had recently spent time in a hospice
and that he was not well enough
to attend debates.

Lord Field urged other members to
back the bill in his absence.
The 79-year-old spent 40 years as
the MP for Birkenhead,
and briefly served as minister for
welfare reform in Tony Blair's
first term in government.

He built a reputation as one of the
most effective backbenchers in
the House of Commons,
with campaigns against poverty
and for curbs on EU immigration.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59009053

This is sad news.

awful