Claim: In June 2017 Conservative MPs voted against a pay rise for nurses.
Fact-check: Claim that Conservatives voted against a nurse pay rise needs some context - Full Fact
Verdict: in june 2017 conservative mps voted against a queen's speech amendment calling on them to lift a cap on public sector pay rises, but later that year went on to lift the cap anyway. in 2018/19 nurse pay rose by more than the previous cap of 1%, but in some cases will still only have stayed at the same level in real terms.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-04-14T00:00:00