From The TimesMarch 1, 2008 Nurses denounced as dirty, lazy drunks Lord Mancroft, who was reprimanded for his comments Philip Webster, Political Editor A Conservative peer who branded nurses “grubby, drunken and promiscuous” during a debate in the House of Lords faced a rebuke from David Cameron and fury from nursing leaders and ministers yesterday. The Royal College of Nursing said Lord Mancroft’s comments were “grossly unfair on nurses across the UK” and amounted to a “sexist insult about the behaviour of British women”. Mr Cameron, who was said to be furious, told Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader in the...