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Barney Davis

Nurses react with fury at Michael Fabricant’s claim they held after-work drinks during pandemic

A Tory MP’s Partygate suggestion that teachers and NHS workers also held “quiet after-work drinks” in staff rooms during the Covid-19 pandemic has been met with anger by nurses.

Michael Fabricant said he did not blame teachers and nurses for also having “unwinding” drinks as he moved to defend Boris Johnson after the prime minister was found to have broken his own Covid laws at a gathering in the Cabinet Room on June 19, 2020, to mark his 56th birthday.

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