Cancer-surviving Labour MP Ronnie Campbell praises his surgeon and begs Theresa May to give more funding to the NHS
Mr Campbell was welcomed back by members from across the House, but he said the Prime Minister needed to "get your purse open" and give more money
CANCER survivor Ronnie Campbell marked his return to the House of Commons today by begging the Prime Minister to give more funds to the NHS.
The Labour MP - who has been undergoing treatment in recent months - called on Theresa May during PMQs to open up her pursue and "give them the money they want".
Mr Campbell was welcomed back by MPs across the House, and the Speaker John Bercow.
He joked: "I'm looking pretty slim as well, Mr Speaker!" before going on to praise the surgeons who saved his life when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
And after his first-hand experience, he called on the Prime Minister to give the NHS more funding.
The Blyth Valley MP said: "It’s been absolutely wonderful, the service I got, but the flipside is what we’re seeing today.
"We are seeing dedicated nurses called corridor nurses... that is not the way we want our health service to run.
"Get your purse open and give them the money they want."
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Mrs May batted away the call, and took the chance to commend all of those who treated the MP who were "day in, day our, saving lives".
Mr Campbell, aged 73, took a break from day-to-day campaigning last September so he could fight the illness.
And he was in high spirits during the reinstatement, when he said: "I've told I'll never be fat again, I'm going to be thin for the rest of my life!"
And last night another cancer-battling MP, Nick Boles, left hospital to vote on the Article 50 Bill.
The former Skills Minister piled the pressure on Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, who abstained on last week's Bill because she came down with a migraine.
Both Mr Campbell and his colleague, Grahame Morris, who is recovering from lymphatic cancer, voted on last week's first reading of the Bill.
Mr Campbell told The Sun last week: "I had a big operation just after New Year, I am getting over it and came back to work this week.
"I saw Diane Abbott in the tearoom before the vote - I held the door open for her.”
Sceptical colleagues also pointed to photographs showing Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary drinking in a Westminster watering hole the evening before the vote.
Hours before the historic vote she gave a lengthy speech in Parliament.
She will be forced to vote in tonight's vote in Parliament or risk being sacked by Jeremy Corbyn - who has ordered all his MPs to back the Bill in a three-line-whip.