Labour’s pledge to put No 10’s planned 1 per cent pay rise for nurses at the heart of its local election campaign could mean that one well-heeled minister’s nonchalant dismissal of the nurses’ case will come back to haunt the Government.
‘There are many people in this country who look upon professional jobs in the NHS with some envy,’ Health Minister Lord Bethell said last week.
‘Nurses are well paid for the job. They have a secure job and they have other benefits.’
Is Bethell, a hereditary peer, the right man to talk about nurses’ pay? He lives with his venture capitalist wife Melissa Wong in a four-storey house in Notting Hill, which cost £6.3 million in 2011, but has since doubled in value. What’s more, they have a swish holiday home in Majorca.
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image captionNigel Evans was given the vaccination by fellow MP Andrew Stephenson
Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans has praised fellow MP Andrew Stephenson for jabbing him with the Covid-19 vaccine.
The Ribble Valley MP received his vaccination at Blackburn Cathedral from his good friend and colleague who is helping with the vaccine roll-out. I ve heard of MPs stabbing each other in the back before but never of them stabbing each other in the arm, Mr Evans said.
Transport Minister Mr Stephenson urged everyone to get the jab when called .
Minister for Vaccine Deployment Nadhim Zahawi tweeted that it must be a world first .
A HUSBAND has re-enacted the moment he proposed to his wife as the couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Amidst the lockdown and the pandemic Mick, 73 and Linda Fuller, 72, returned to Blackburn Cathedral, where they married 50 years ago, on March 6, 1971. What can only be described as one of the most heart-warming moments of the past year, on the very same day and time of the ceremony, Mick got down on one knee to propose to Linda on the Wainwright Bridge - formerly ‘the iron bridge’ - in Blackburn. Daughter Leigh Fuller said: “My dad wanted to re-create the proposal on the iron bridge and whilst he tried to keep it a surprise it was difficult to come up with an excuse as to why they were going there.
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