A FORMER Bradford district MP has spoken of his shock following a sudden heart attack.

Sir Philip Davies, who only lost his Conservative Shipley seat in July after 19 years in parliament, recently underwent a quadruple heart bypass.

It was the day following the surgery that Mr Davies describes as the "worst day of my life".

"I could not breathe all day," the 52-year-old told the Telegraph & Argus.

"It was really scary. It was just awful the pain.

"I have never experienced anything like that before."

Sir Philip was keen to praise the NHS following his treatment in the A&E department at Wythenshawe Hospital.

This was after he admitted himself to A&E with what he thought was just chest pains.

"I found it difficult to breathe. If I just went to the toilet and back, I was absolutely done for," Mr Davies, who was released from hospital on Monday, added.

"I went to A&E and they told me I had a pretty serious heart attack and there was quite a lot of damage done to my heart. I was in hospital for the last three and a half weeks.

"The first two weeks were quite scary because they were doing tests to see whether or not they could help me because my heart was so badly damaged.

"Thankfully, Wythenshaw Hospital had a specialist heart centre which had a surgeon called Professor Rajamiyer Venkateswaran.

"He is the leading heart surgeon in the country and he managed to work a miracle and gave me a quad heart bypass which was successful."

He added: "The NHS has got lots of problems and lots of things need fixing but when it comes to it, I dealt with some amazing people.

"You can get Professor Rajamiyer Venkateswaran on the NHS, which is pretty amazing, because anywhere else in the world you would have to pay for his expertise."

As Sir Philip recovers, there is a certain meal that he will miss the most.

He said: "I have got a long road to recovery. I am through the darkest period.

"Esther (McVey, his wife) has been an absolute rock looking after me and coming to see me in hospital everyday.

"The most painful aspect of it all will be having to change my diet, there will be fewer full English breakfasts."