The junior doctor strikes will go ahead from 7 a.m. this Friday to 7 a.m. Wednesday. The BMA says:
“We said we were open to non pay improvements if they were serious and substantive but we got back was more promises of more talks.”
Streeting’s pleas didn’t work then…
UPDATE: Wes Streeting reacts:
“Strike action is completely unjustified, completely unprecedented in the history of British trade unionism and shows a complete disdain for patients and the wider recovery of the NHS.”
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”