Junior doctors are threatening fresh strike action after the Government today offered a 'woefully inadequate' pay rise of 4 per cent.
Despite ministers accepting a series of recommendations by public sector pay review bodies, trade union bosses put Labour on notice of a possible 'summer of discontent'.
Among the pay offers announced this afternoon, teachers and school leaders in England will also receive a 4 per cent pay rise.
Most members of the Armed Forces will be given a 4.5 per cent pay hike, while nurses, midwives and physiotherapists will see their salaries boosted by 3.6 per cent.
Ministers also accepted a recommendation that senior civil servants should receive a 3.25 per cent pay rise.
