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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has backed a campaign to get life-saving defibrillators in every school in memory of tragic Liverpool youngster Oliver King.

The 12-year-old died five years ago after suffering fatal heart failure at King David High School in Childwall .

Since then his dad Mark has helped raise money to install 800 defibrillators in public buildings across the country.

Mr King and representatives of the Oliver King Foundation went to London this week to meet MPs and lobby for a new law that every school must have a defibrillator.

Mr King said: “There was a lot of interest from MPs in what the foundation is trying to achieve.

“Jeremy Corbyn is supporting us and he told us to carry on with the good work we are doing.

“We have campaigned tirelessly for five years and won’t give up until this is done.”

The Oliver King Foundation estimates it would cost £12m to buy a defibrillator for every school in England.

Charity chief executive Jake Morrison said: “We are campaigning for every school to have a defibrillator as a matter of law.

“We have not had a vote in Parliament on this during the time we have been campaigning, but that’s what we are calling for.

A number of the charity’s defibrillators have been used, saving the lives of cardiac arrest victims ranging from four years old to 64.

Oliver collapsed after winning a swimming race at school and later died.

The cause turned out to be an undiagnosed heart condition called sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, which claims 19 young lives a week in the UK.

His family believe a defibrillator, which uses an electric shock to restore heart rhythm, could have saved him.