Portsmouth South MP Flick Drummond will be supporting Breast Cancer Now’s wear it pink fundraising day next month when people don the colour to raise cash to fight the disease.
Flick got involved in the issue last week by wearing pink at a launch in Westminster and by becoming a parliamentary ambassador for Breast Cancer Now.
She joined 190 MPs across the country urging fellow politicians and constituents that immediate action must be taken to stop the cancer taking lives.
“This is a terrible disease that has affected some of my friends, so I didn’t hesitate in becoming a Breast Cancer Now ambassador and I hope that many people in Portsmouth will wear pink on 23rd October to show their support and raise money to help finally defeat it,” Flick said.
Now in its 14th year, Wear It Pink raises over £2 million each year for world-class research into breast cancer.
Every year in the UK around 50,000 women are diagnosed with the disease, and nearly 12,000 women still lose their lives to it.