A NURSE who looked after PM Boris Johnson when he was hospitalised with Covid-19 has resigned over the government’s 1 per cent pay offer and lack of respect for the profession.

Jenny McGee cared for the Prime Minister in intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London.

In the documentary The Year Britain Stopped, to be broadcast on May 24, she said: “I don’t know how much more I’ve got to give to the NHS.

“We’re not getting the respect, and now the pay that, we deserve. I’m just sick of it. So I’ve handed in my resignation.

“Leading up to Christmas, I could just not believe what I was seeing, it was just a cesspool of Covid.

“And then a whole lot of new patients come in. It was an absolute s**tshow to be honest.

“At that point, I don’t know how to describe the horrendousness of what we were going through.”

Pat Cullen, acting general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said: “There are already tens of thousands of nursing vacancies and we continue to warn of an exodus from the profession if the government does not demonstrate its respect by giving nurses a fair pay rise for the skilled work they do.”