evidence: You've probably seen references to the Tories voting against pay rises for nurses in 2017 on social media during the pandemic. [...] On 28 June 2017 MPs voted on whether or not to lift that 1 per cent cap, meaning workers including nurses might get a pay rise. And the majority voted against it. [...] Conservative governments were responsible for implementing and keeping in place the austerity measures that kept pay for nurses, teachers, firefighters and police officers below even the rate of inflation.