Wes Streeting has slammed the BMA’s “irresponsible and dangerous” decision to go ahead with junior doctors strikes for five days from Wednesday. He said:
“I think that it is unreasonable and obviously unaffordable. Now there is serious risk to the NHS this week. I think that goes to show the kind of BMA that we are dealing with and the the fact they are choosing to strike this week at a time to inflict maximum damage on the NHS but also at a risk of serious harm to patients I think is unconscionable.”
He’s running out of patients…
Junior doctor strikes will go ahead from 17 to 22 December, the BMA has announced. A whopping 83.2% of members voted against the latest offer from Wes Streeting to double the number of extra places early career doctors in England can apply for. Chairman of the BMA resident doctors committee Jack Fletcher said:
“This offer is the result of thousands of resident doctors showing that they are prepared to stand up for their profession and their future. It should not have taken strike action but make no mistake: it was strike action that got us this far.”
Just as Christmas season becomes super-flu season…
Update: Wes Streeting says the BMA has “chosen Christmas strikes to inflict damage on the NHS at the moment of maximum danger.”
Budget Man Torsten Bell’s old outfit has released a new report blaming Reeves’ tax raid for soaring unemployment. The Resolution Foundation points the finger at the £26 billion National Insurance contribution raid, describing it as a “shock” that’s helped push joblessness higher…
The Starmtrooper training ground slammed the minimum wage hikes too:
“The increase in employer NICs and the minimum wage changes introduced in April 2025 both served to raise the labour costs of younger workers relative to older workers. The employer NICs increase affected the cost of employing young workers aged 21 and above because it had a bigger impact on low than high earners, and young people earn less than older workers.”
The report finishes on a solemn note: “Unfortunately, we can’t go back in time and choose a more jobs-friendly tax increase than the employer NICs hike. But the Government can be careful about any further increases in labour costs, especially for young people.” Meanwhile, households’ views on future finances have fallen to a two-year low in December, with views on job security at a six-month low, according to S&P Global. Bell ends up upsetting his former colleagues yet again…
MoJ minister Alex Davies-Jones has refused to tell GB News whether and how many accidental prison releases have taken place since Lammy last revealed the full numbers on his morning round. Can they decide on a line…
She would only say that there was an active police investigation and provided no more details. Davies-Jones was repeatedly asked if more prisoners had escaped and if the two previously on the run had been found. Do they only tell the public if it’s an odd-numbered date…
Reform MP Danny Kruger is in Westminster to deliver a press conference on the party’s plan to cut the size of the Civil Service. Watch live below…
Reform says it is targeting Whitehall ‘bloat’, rather than frontline services. This is ‘phase 1’, so does not include quangos…
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Sir Ephraim Mirvis spoke to Sky News. “Devastation, but no surprise… because of the tone on the streets in our societies”…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”