Exclusive: PM’s outspoken attack on stoppages planned for 17-22 December risks inflaming tensions with medics
Keir Starmer: Resident doctors, a fair deal is on the table. Please do not strike at this moment of crisis for the NHS
Keir Starmer has said it is “frankly beyond belief” that resident doctors would strike during the NHS’s worst moment since the pandemic, in remarks that risk inflaming tensions with medics.
Writing for the Guardian, the prime minister made an outspoken attack on the strikes planned for 17-22 December for placing “the NHS and patients who need it in grave danger”.
Starmer’s intervention comes a day after Wes Streeting argued the strikes could overwhelm the NHS, increasing pressure on resident doctors to accept his offer of more training places, but no extra money.
