Nottingham nurse who trained on Covid front line says No 10 'parties' are an insult

A nurse who trained on the Covid front line in Nottingham has described how mentally draining it was - and how it was an "insult" to learn that No 10 staff had allegedly partied while medics and patients stuck to the rules.

Rhys Smedley, 28, from Long Eaton, now works at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, the same hospital where he trained as a student.

From the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Rhys worked on the T-31 surgical admission ward as a student of Nottingham Trent University.