According to GB News, more than 450 small boat migrants are currently attempting to make the journey across the channel. A total of ten boats departed from French beaches this morning, with smuggling gangs taking advantage of today’s calmer waters. The biggest surge in migrant crossings of the year so far…
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.”