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 Lords, that he should reprimand the peer.  The row developed after Lord Mancroft claimed it was “a miracle” that he was still alive after his experience of filthy wards and “slipshod and lazy” nurses when he was admitted to the Royal United Hospital in Bath.  Read more