EALING North MP Stephen Pound joined the British Heart Foundation to deliver a life-saving petition to have CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) taught in schools.

The BHF is calling on education authorities to help create a nation of life-savers and make CPR a mandatory part of secondary education.

The campaign has received overwhelming public support, with more than 80,000 people signing up to the petition.

Mr Pound helped deliver it to the Department of Education, in a bid to make Education Secretary Nicky Morgan take the campaign forward.

Keely Huxham, BHF area manager, said: “Too many lives are lost needlessly every day simply because people don’t know how to perform CPR.

“By making sure every young person is taught this life-saving skill, we can help more people survive a cardiac arrest and go home to their families.”

More than 30,000 people have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital every year, but less than one in 10 survive.

Mr Pound said: “We would be teaching the next generation one of the most important lessons they will ever learn – how to save a life.”