Rishi Sunak has finally mustered up the strength (in-between fine dining in Beverly Hills) to speak out on social media, having been off grid for 23 days. You’d thing amongst riots, tax hikes in sight, and prisons filling up, the Leader of the Opposition would have something to say about the state of the nation…
An hour after Starmer’s speech today, Sunak managed to tweet the profound and insightful comment that it looks like Labour will raise taxes. Almost like he never really wanted the job in the first place…
Speaking at an IPPR think tank event in London, the Health Secretary compared striking junior doctors to mutinous sailors.
“I feel like we’ve turned the ship, the boat’s going in the right direction, except some of the crew are trying to row in one direction while the rest of us are going in the other. You can’t make progress that way. We are seeing an improving NHS, and we’ve seen improvement despite resident doctors’ strikes, but the fact is, performance would have been better and there would have been more money to invest in staff and services if the BMA hadn’t been undertaking the strike action.”