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# Lichfield MP criticised over “insulting” comments on teachers and nurses after Prime Minister is fined over lockdown party
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lichfield-mp-criticised-over-insulting-comments-on-teachers-and-nurses-after-prime-minister-is-fined-over-lockdown-party/
- Published: 2022-04-12T15:04:56.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-19T08:45:45.000Z
- Description: 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.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:11, News

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.

![Michael Fabricant. Picture: UK Parliament](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/lsdx1x8o.jpg)

Michael Fabricant. Picture: UK Parliament

Downing Street has confirmed the fixed penalty notice in relation to a gathering on 19th June.

But Conservative MP Michael Fabricant told the BBC nurses and teachers were also enjoying drinks when rules preventing them from doing so.

> “I think he’s got to apologise, but I don’t think at any time he thought he was breaking the law.  
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> “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.”  
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> Michael Fabricant MP

But Cllr Dave Robertson, Labour representative for Curborough on Lichfield District Council, said Mr Fabricant’s comments were “crass and insulting”.

The former teacher told *Lichfield Live*:

> “Nurses, teachers and key workers did more than their bit during Covid – unlike the Prime Minister and chancellor though, they stuck to the rules when they weren’t at work.  
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> “We’ve all heard stories from nurses who isolated themselves from family to keep them safe, teachers who were in work throughout the pandemic to make sure that key workers could be at work, while warehouse, shop and delivery workers made sure we didn’t go hungry.  
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> “Any idea that they were throwing parties after work is either ignorant or deliberately misleading.  
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> “Mr Fabricant’s comments on are crass and insulting to the very people who got us through Covid.  
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> “He owes them all an unqualified apology.”  
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> Cllr Dave Robertson, Lichfield District Council