Michael Fabricant

Speaking to The Telegraph, Tory MP claims whistleblowers have told him some school staff did get together during restrictions.

“Tarring them with the same brush as our law-breaking Prime Minister and Chancellor is disgraceful. Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak broke the law. I am sure most other nurses and teachers stuck to the letter of the law, as did I.” “Those key workers were doing their jobs, caring for the sick and educating our children,” he wrote on Twitter. “I’ve seen no evidence of ‘after shift party time’. They were all too knackered. “These latest comments by Mr Fabricant have done enormous damage and are entirely unjustified.” In a statement, Mr Fabricant said: “Over the last year, a teacher and two nurses have told me that they had some sympathy with the Prime Minister as after an exhausting day at work they, too, had had a drink with their workmates.

On Tuesday, Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant told BBC News that he did not think Prime Minister Boris Johnson knew that he was breaking the law when he attended a ...

Those key workers were doing their jobs eg caring for the sick and educating our children.” “Despite all of that, they did not break the rules. he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink,” Mr Fabricant said. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. She added that teachers had shown “calm professionalism” in “impossible circumstances”, and that teachers had carried a “huge amount of anxiety” about the potential risk working carried for their own health or that of their families. He said the comments by Mr Fabricant had done “enormous damage” and were “entirely unjustified”.

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 ...

Mr Johnson issued an apology after he was fined £50 on Tuesday for breaking Covid-19 laws by attending a gathering to mark his birthday in Number 10 in June 2020. “I think at the time just like many teachers and nurses who after a very, very long shift would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink which is more or less what he has done. Day off meant a solo walk in the park. Gastroenterology Doctor Ben White, also hit back at the claims on Twitter, writing: “Absolutely nobody I knew in the NHS had routine gatherings or drinks after work during covid restrictions. “Throughout the early pandemic, this was often alone, for the protection of others - kept away from family, friends and support networks. We left exhausted, stripped, showered, terrified we might pass something on, ate, stayed in and slept.

Teaching leaders criticised the comments as "deeply insulting". Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant told BBC News he knew of nurses and teachers who went for a quiet ...

"I think at the time just like many teachers and nurses who after a very, very long shift would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink which is more or less what he has done.... He said he fully understood the anger of people who obeyed the rules, "couldn't visit relatives, and missed weddings and funerals". In a later statement Mr Fabricant said a teacher and two nurses had told him they had some sympathy with the prime minister "as after an exhausting day at work they, too, had had a drink with their work mates". Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders' union, said in a letter to the education secretary Mr Fabricant's suggestion was "wholly inaccurate and deeply insulting" to teachers as a profession. Dame Alison Peacock, chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, said Mr Fabricant's comments were "naïve and wrong" and teachers should be being thanked instead "for everything they have done". Ms Cullen criticised the MP's comments and said nurses and nursing support staff would, after finishing well past the end of their shifts, "get home, clean their uniforms, shower and collapse into bed" rather than "have a quiet one in the staff room".

'Utterly demoralising' to nurses would break the law like elected officials, nursing leaders say.

Despite political narrative, as health and care professionals we know the Covid-19 context is nowhere near over.” Mr Fabricant said on Tuesday: “I don’t think at any time he thought he was breaking the law... Start your Independent Premium subscription today.

Michael Fabricant apparently sought to draw parallels between the behaviour of hard-pressed hospital workers battling COVID-19 and that of the prime ...

"At the end of one of the many hours, days and years we have worked, since recognition of the pandemic, I can assure you that none of us have sought to hang out and 'have a quiet one in the staff room'. In a letter to Mr Fabricant, Ms Cullen said that she was formally complaining about his comments on behalf of the RCN's half-million members and painted a starkly different picture of how nurses had been working "ethically, responsibly and in the face of ongoing pressures and constraints". RCN general secretary Pat Cullen wrote to Mr Fabricant to complain formally about the comments, saying it was "utterly demoralising" that he had apparently sought to draw parallels between the behaviour of nurses and that of the PM.

The Tory backbencher suggested that rule-breaking parties at Downing Street were little different to what had gone on in other workplaces.

However, while Fabricant admits to having had “enhancement of the follicular area”, he denies wearing a wig. In January the MP told GB news that staff working at Downing Street has been exhausted 'working 18, 19 hour days' on the vaccine programme after news of the police investigation into the garden party drinks. The Royal College of Nursing has indicated that it will make a formal complaint. Fabricant has insisted that voters simply want the Prime Minister to “get on” with his job. But who exactly is Michael Fabricant - and what has he said about Boris Johnson? Michael Fabricant is a Conservative politician who has served as MP for Lichfield (previously Mid-Staffordshire) since 1992.

Teachers' leaders have condemned comments from an MP suggesting that they had a “quiet drink” in the staffroom after a long day, as he defended the Prime ...

Those key workers were doing their jobs eg caring for the sick and educating our children.” “Despite all of that, they did not break the rules. he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink,” Mr Fabricant said. “Unlike what seems to be the case in Downing Street, alcohol is not a feature of the working day in schools, and teachers do not drink in staff rooms,” he said. “Like the rest of the public, education staff are dismayed by the behaviour of the Prime Minister and others in Downing Street in breaking their own rules because it is a clear case of double standards.” She added that teachers had shown “calm professionalism” in “impossible circumstances”, and that teachers had carried a “huge amount of anxiety” about the potential risk working carried for their own health or that of their families.

Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant told BBC News he knew of nurses and teachers who went for a quiet drink after shifts. He said since his initial claims, five more ...

"I think at the time just like many teachers and nurses who after a very, very long shift would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink which is more or less what he has done.... He said he fully understood the anger of people who obeyed the rules, "couldn't visit relatives, and missed weddings and funerals". In a later statement Mr Fabricant said a teacher and two nurses had told him they had some sympathy with the prime minister "as after an exhausting day at work they, too, had had a drink with their work mates". Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders' union, said in a letter to the education secretary Mr Fabricant's suggestion was "wholly inaccurate and deeply insulting" to teachers as a profession. Dame Alison Peacock, chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, said Mr Fabricant's comments were "naïve and wrong" and teachers should be being thanked instead "for everything they have done". Ms Cullen criticised the MP's comments and said nurses and nursing support staff would, after finishing well past the end of their shifts, "get home, clean their uniforms, shower and collapse into bed" rather than "have a quiet one in the staff room".

The Tory backbencher suggested that rule-breaking parties at Downing Street were little different to what had gone on in other workplaces.

However, while Fabricant admits to having had “enhancement of the follicular area”, he denies wearing a wig. In January the MP told GB news that staff working at Downing Street has been exhausted 'working 18, 19 hour days' on the vaccine programme after news of the police investigation into the garden party drinks. The Royal College of Nursing has indicated that it will make a formal complaint. Fabricant has insisted that voters simply want the Prime Minister to “get on” with his job. But who exactly is Michael Fabricant - and what has he said about Boris Johnson? Michael Fabricant is a Conservative politician who has served as MP for Lichfield (previously Mid-Staffordshire) since 1992.

Mr Fabricant, who represents Lichfield, also enraged nurses and teachers by comparing Mr Johnson's lockdown-busting party with their daily behaviour during the ...

‘The reason I make that point is that that had been done for a long time – not just pre-pandemic, by previous administrations. ‘At the end of one of the many hours, days and years we have worked, since recognition of the pandemic, I can assure you that none of us have sought to hang out and “have a quiet one in the staff room.” Turning back to the behaviour of others during lockdown, Mr Fabricant went on: ‘I think you have to take it in context in the sense that I know lots of people who were working long hours did, at the end of the day, have a quiet drink. But Mr Fabricant dismissed the idea and called for the PM to apologise to the House of Commons. Mr Johnson claimed earlier: ‘At that time, it did not occur to me that this might have been a breach of the rules.’ He continued: ‘I know many teachers, doctors that would sit down and have a quiet drink at the end of the day, and whether or not they took their drink into the hospital or school in a suitcase and whether it was a back pack or whatever is irrelevant.

TORY MP Michael Fabricant has defended Boris Johnson after he was fined for breaking lockdown laws, arguing that it wasn't as if there were…

There weren’t wild parties under Tony Blair and I’m not clear there were any wild parties. I’m not advising he should do that.” Shortly after the news emerged, Fabricant was on BBC’s 5 Live to discuss the story.

Lichfield's MP has been criticised for claiming Boris Johnson was only doing what teachers and nurses were after the Prime Minister was fined for attending a ...

But Cllr Dave Robertson, Labour representative for Curborough on Lichfield District Council, said Mr Fabricant’s comments were “crass and insulting”. “I think at the time just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink which is more or less what he has done.”Michael Fabricant MP Lichfield’s MP has been criticised for claiming Boris Johnson was only doing what teachers and nurses were after the Prime Minister was fined for attending a lockdown party.

The Lichfield MP said he thought Boris Johnson would have to come to the Commons on Tuesday, when parliament returns after the Easter holiday, to apologise.

But he went on: "Having said that, I don’t think that at any time [Johnson] thought that he was breaking the law. Mr Fabricant said he knew personally of some who did this. Michael Fabricant has sparked fury with a defence of Boris Johnson after the Prime Minister was fined for partygate today.

It comes after the news that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak would be issued police fines over the Partygate scandal.

“Why are they any different?” Rhian questioned. She continued, “I would take my uniform off by my door. I didn’t hug my father for six months, and we lived in the same property.

Michael Fabricant has sparked fury with his justification of the Prime Minister, after claiming that teachers and nurses also broke the law during lockdown ...

A third added: “And on the teaching side; my wife is a teacher and the staff rooms were all out of bounds!!! A second commented: “FO… just FO Mike Fabricant… teachers and nurses don’t drink at work, it’s actually a sackable offence to have alcohol on the premises & you know that… Mr Fabricant added: "But I don’t think he thought he was breaking the law.

The Prime Minister, wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were among more than 30 more recipients of fixed-penalty notices dished out by Scotland Yard on ...

'But that wasn't the case, was it? Mr Fabricant also leapt to his defence, saying: 'I think what was going through his mind, and we'll have to hear it from him on Tuesday, was that these were people he was working with cheek by jowl, hour after hour in Downing Street at the time, incidentally, trying to find a vaccine programme for the UK, which of course he succeeded in doing. Sky News anchor Mark Austin tonight hit back at a Tory MP who claimed nurses had work drinks during lockdown amid a discussion over Boris Johnson and his fine for breaching restrictions.