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What’s Crohn’s and what are the symptoms?

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper has opened up about her life-threatening experience of Crohn’s disease.

Addressing her party’s autumn conference in Brighton on Monday, the MP for St Albans revealed that 12 years ago she was “rushed to hospital” and was told she needed life-saving surgery.

“A few weeks in, I was told that without major surgery I had just four days left to live. My weight had dropped to around

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