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A Labour MP whose son died aged eight has urged Theresa May to back our campaign to end child burial charges.

Carolyn Harris, forced to take out a loan and rely on a whip-round to pay £1,750 costs when son Martin died in a crash, wants the PM to support the Sunday Mirror and Labour fight.

We are urging Chancellor Philip Hammond to cancel council-imposed charges for 5,000 children who die each year.

Prices for graves can range from £125 to £4,000.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pushed Mrs May on the issue at Prime Minister’s Questions.

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The PM says there are already “facilities in place” for parents to claw money back.

But in a letter to Mrs May, Swansea East MP Mrs Harris, 56, says: “The 34-page form to access funds is an impenetrable maze of words and procedures that most people would find impossible to fill in, let alone a grieving parent.”