Wes Streeting Urges Junior Doctors to Cancel Pre-Election Strike

Published on June 16, 2024

Wes Streeting has urged junior doctors to call off their planned pre-election strike, promising to call them “on day one” if Labour wins on July 4. The shadow health secretary said he’s “beyond furious” that the dispute, which has lasted for more than a year, is still ongoing, but added that “the money isn’t there” to give junior doctors a 35 percent pay rise. Junior doctors in England will walk out between 7 a.m. June 27 and 7 a.m. July 2, two days before polling day after the latest round of talks broke down, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced, saying Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had failed to make a credible offer to junior doctors....

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