Labour have blasted a Tory minister for suggesting NHS staff should see their job as a “vocation” instead of striking for better pay.
Lord Markham - a businessman who was made a minister last month - drew groans in the House of Lords for the remark on Wednesday.
He was asked what advice he would give a nurse “working in theatre, and at the top of her pay band, alongside agency nurses who are paid two to three times as much as she is.”
