I was trolled horrifically for a week around New Year. I struggled to eat or sleep for a week. And now I’ve recovered, and built my confidence back up, I’d like to say something.

Do you know what type of person it takes to put a hard-fought medical career on hold, to lobby...

for others’ protection? Do you know what it takes to take a £50k loss of earnings, which will affect you and your young family? Do you know what it takes to build a cross-party coalition of 104 MPs during a pandemic?...

It takes absolute humility, and the ability to see beyond yourself, and the ability to listen, and the ability to pick up the phone to absolutely anyone in order to fight for protections for NHS staff. It takes stomaching feedback from everywhere, constantly, and taking it..

on-board. Appreciating that feedback, learning from it. It takes consensus building, and never fighting back when attacked. Day in, day out. Fighting back hurts the cause. And the cause matters, not me.

I’m in this for doctors, and other NHS staff, and patients. That’s it. Julia