MacNae wins benefits promise from PM

ROSSENDALE and Darwen MP Andy MacNae has won a promise from Sir Keir Starmer that people with severe health conditions who cannot work will have their benefits protected after raising the case of a constituent who suffers multiple epileptic seizures daily.

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The Labour backbencher highlighted the problems faced by Ben Lacey at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. He said Personal Independence Payments (PIP) were vital to his constituent who faced repeated assessments causing his stress and uncertainty. Mr MacNae told Sir Keir: “It is National Epilepsy Week and we are joined in the public gallery by England rugby player Tommy Freeman, who was diagnosed with epilepsy at 19 but who, through effective treatment, has gone on to be selected for the British and Irish Lion