Junior doctors timed strikes days before election to coincide with Labour's NHS announcement, Health Sec...

Junior doctors announced new strike dates days before the General Election to coincide with Labour's announcements on the NHS, the Health Secretary has suggested to LBC. A full walkout by junior doctors will start at 7am on June 27 and will end at 7am on July 2 - just two days before the General Election. The Health Sercetary, Victoria Atkins, has suggested the strikes have been timed cynically, as was today's announcement to coincide with Sir Keir Starmer's NHS announcements.

"For more than 18 months we have been asking Rishi Sunak to put forward proposals to restore the pay junior doctors have lost over the past 15 years – equal to more than a quarter in real terms. “When we entered mediation with Government this month we did so under the impression that we had a functioning government that would soon be making an offer. Clearly no offer is now forthcoming. Junior doctors are fed up and out of patience.

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