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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Parnaby

Author Michael Rosen urges better pay for nurses after speaking at Covid service

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Author Michael Rosen has said he “can’t bear” seeing nurses being underpaid and “100%” supports their right to strike, after reading a poem in Westminster Abbey dedicated to the NHS workers who saved his life.

The former children’s laureate read an extract from his 2021 book, Many Different Kinds Of Love, at a central London coronavirus remembrance service attended by hundreds of bereaved relatives and key workers on Tuesday.

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