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Boris Johnson falsely claims Labour voted against pay rise for nurses during PMQs– video

Guardian, 10 Mar 2021
No 10 has refused to openly admit that Boris Johnson was wrong when during PMQs he stated that Labour had voted against the NHS funding bill - the legislation for a long-term funding package that implied staff would be getting a 2.1% pay increase this year. Labour leader Keir Starmer seemed surprised by the claim, as if unsure of how his party had in fact voted on the bill, but said that even if the Tories had voted for those plans, now they were 'ripping them up'. After PMQs, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth made a point of order to raise Johnson's claim with the Speaker
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