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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Liverpool ICU doctor shares heartbreaking response to Boris Johnson party pics

A Liverpool Intensive Care Unit doctor has delivered a heartbreaking response to images of Boris Johnson drinking with colleagues at a Downing Street party.

Dr Peter Hampshire led Liverpool's Intensive Care Unit through the numerous devastating waves of the pandemic. The city found itself repeatedly in the eye of the storm as infections soared and health services became overwhelmed.

The ECHO was invited to see Dr Hampshire's team in action in November 2020 and we witnessed exhausted staff fighting to keep patients alive in the most difficult of circumstances. It was around this time that the Prime Minister was pictured drinking with a gathered crowd for a Downing Street leaving party.

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