Junior doctors will go on strike from Friday 14th November until Wednesday 19th November. BMA doctors said today:
“Thanks to our successful FY1 ballot, we are now calling on the Government to address both the erosion to our pay and the speciality training crisis. We’ve made clear these issues must be addressed together, but the Government has refused our negotiating proposals on pay. As a result, our committee has voted to take strike action over pay and jobs in England. Resident doctors will be going on strike from 7.00am on 14 November to 6.59am on 19 November.”
What was it Wes Streeting said before the election about “seeing off the threat of future strike action”?
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”