Maria Caulfield has got some nerve. The nurse-turned-Tory MP voted against a pay rise for her former colleagues – but is now inviting MPs who did vote to end the public sector pay cap to join her campaign against the policy.

Caulfield has sent MPs an invitation to an event she is hosting with the Royal College of Nursing in Parliament on September 6.

The email asks them to join her to “find our more about why the campaign is so important.”

Grahame Morris, one of the 318 opposition MPs who voted against the pay cap last month while Caulfield obeyed the orders of the Tory whips to protect it, couldn’t hide his incredulity.

The Labour MP for Easington shared the shameless invitation on Twitter, calling it “ironic and ridiculous”:

Ironic and ridiculous that @mariacaulfield has sponsored a @theRCN event on #ScrapTheCap when she voted against giving nurses a pay rise! pic.twitter.com/7LbM26RwtM — Grahame Morris (@grahamemorris) July 24, 2017

Karen Lee, a Labour MP and former nurse, also called out Caulfield’s hypocrisy:

as someone who was a practising nurse until a few weeks ago I find @mariacaulfield utterly cynical and shameful #scrapthecap — Karen Lee (@KarenLeeMP) July 24, 2017

Caulfield tried to claim that Labour MPs were boycotting the event:

Sad that Labour MPs are refusing to support a RCN nursing event just because a Conservative MP is sponsoring it. @grahamemorris @KarenLeeMP — Maria Caulfield MP (@mariacaulfield) July 24, 2017

But Morris and Lee assured her they will be at the event to let nurses know who’s really on their side:

Labour MPs offer more than warm words & empty rhetoric. Voted to #ScraptheCap, will be at @theRCN event & always VOTE to support our nurses https://t.co/1eJzeQYI0L — Grahame Morris (@grahamemorris) July 25, 2017

will be there. Will ask @mariacaulfield why she voted against scrapping cap & has now changed her mind? https://t.co/V6gccvPqx7 — Karen Lee (@KarenLeeMP) July 25, 2017

Scrapbook reported last month that Caulfield was one of 10 Tory MPs who spoke out against the cap and then voted for it.

They all chose to put the interests of their party before those of millions of dedicated public servants – and in some cases their former co-workers.

Don’t let them forget it…