GRIMSBY MP Austin Mitchell will spend two weeks in hospital after undergoing open heart surgery yesterday.
The operation took place at 8am at Kings College Hospital in London, the NHS hospital which looked after him when he fell on his way to vote at the House of Commons in June.
Austin's wife, Linda, said his heart had been only 35 per cent efficient.
She said: "Professor Olaf Wendler, who did the operation, told me that everything had gone really well and that he had managed to mend Austin's leaky valve.
"He said we were 80 per cent of the way to a successful outcome, the other 20 per cent being Austin's ability to recover.
"I can report that so far he is doing really well.
"He is not at all confused or out of it and breathing steadily."
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