13 h. ago Labour accused of 'crocodile tears' over junior doctors strike as ministers criticise medical union for low turnout in ballot

Angela Rayner 's radical workers' rights Bill will soon scrap the 50 per cent turnout threshold which unions must meet to hold legal strike action.

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15 h. ago You can hardly blame the union for pushing at a door ministers unbolted: DANIEL HANNAN

Angela Rayner is scrapping the minimum turnout that a trade union needs before launching legal strike action - a threshold that the doctors barely cleared in their recent ballot.

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46 h. ago Public support for resident doctors’ strikes collapses ahead of fresh industrial action

Exclusive: Latest poll comes as Wes Streeting urges medics to call off ‘unnecessary and unfair strikes’Public support for strikes by resident doctors has collapsed, with barely one in four voters now backing their campaign of industrial action, according to the latest polling, which reveals the deepening unpopularity of further NHS strikes.Previously strong approval by voters for strikes by junior doctors – as resident doctors were known until last year – has halved from 52% a year ago to just 26%. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Some junior doctors striking this month ‘could be earning over £100k’

A group of clinicians may be earning six-figure salaries while working a 40-hour week

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51 h. ago Just one in three back doctor strikes, poll shows as Streeting warned he ‘cannot afford to lose’

Former Labour health secretary under Tony Blair warns Wes Streeting he ‘has to win’ war against striking junior doctors

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60 h. ago Junior doctors planning to strike AGAIN over pay 'are now earning as much as £100,000 a year'

Earlier this week, the British Medical Association (BMA) announced that up to 50,000 resident doctors in England would walk out for five consecutive days from 7am on July 25, in a dispute over pay.

Economics

69 h. ago Labour goes to war with Unite: Union accused of 'silly stunts' after suspending Angela Rayner for failing to back striking bin workers 'causing misery' in Birmingham

The party accused Unite of engaging in 'silly stunts' after its annual conference voted to suspend the membership of the Deputy Prime Minister, who said the walk-out was causing 'misery' and should end.

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4 d. ago Voices: ‘No one outside the NHS will understand’: Doctors and their families defend strike action

Doctors, NHS staff and families defended the strike as essential, calling the ‘greedy’ label ‘truly heartbreaking’ and insisting today’s brutal working conditions are worse than ever

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4 d. ago Wes Streeting issues fresh warning after doctors announce major strike action

Wes Streeting tried to reassure worried patients after the band of medics - previously known as junior doctors - yesterday said they will strike for five days from July 25

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4 d. ago TOM HARRIS: Yet again it's patients who will be the casualties in a battle over who really runs Britain

The battle lines have been drawn. We know who the combatants are in the latest pay row in the NHS - the doctors and the Government. And, sadly, we know who the casualties will be...

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4 d. ago Wes Streeting's plans for NHS recovery 'hanging by a thread' after junior doctors announce five day walkout over pay

The Health Secretary accused the BMA of being 'completely unreasonable' after it announced the five-day walkout, which could see 200,000 appointments and operations cancelled.

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4 d. ago Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR

Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgmentRussia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found.The court’s grand chamber unanimously held that between 11 May 2014 and 16 September 2022, when Russia ceased to be a party to the European convention on human rights it had committed “manifestly unlawful conduct on a massive scale”.Indiscriminate military attacks.Summary executions of civilians and Ukrainian military personnel.Torture, including the use of rape as a weapon of war.Unlawful and arbitrary detention of civilians.Unjustified displacement and transfer of civilians.Intimidation, harassment and persecution of all religious groups other than adherents of the historically Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox church.Intimidation and violence against journalists a...

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4 d. ago Starmer and Macron hail 'game changing' partnership as they vow action on small boats at Downing Street

The Prime Minister hopes to strike a “one in, one out” deal to send small boat migrants back to the continent

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5 d. ago Junior doctors to strike for five days over the summer in dispute over pay

The British Medical Association has announced resident doctors will be striking for five days unless the Government will work with them and negotiate a pay rise

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5 d. ago Starmer says UK ‘can’t just tax our way to growth’ as he brushes off call for wealth tax – UK politics live

UK prime minister will have talks with Emmanuel Macron later todayThe BMA strike decision must be a tempting topic for Kemi Badenoch at PMQs, which is starting very soon. The Conservatives have repeatedly criticised the government for the way they swiftly settled public sector pay disputes when they took office; they argue that Labour was too generous to the unions, thereby encouraging them to threaten further strikes.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.Streeting says he is “disappointed” by the proposed strike, and he insists resident doctors have had a relatively good outcome on pay. He says:I remain disappointed that despite all that we have been able to achieve in this last year, and that the majority of resident doctors in the BMA did not vote to strike, the BMA is continuing to threaten strike action.I accepted the DDRB’s recommendation for resident doctors, awarding an average pay rise of 5.4%, the highest across the public sector. Accepting this above inflation re...

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5 d. ago Resident doctors plunge NHS into chaos as they announce five days of strikes in July

Thousands of resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, to walk out in pay row after Government refuse to negotiate further

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5 d. ago NHS summer chaos confirmed as junior doctors reveal start date of five day strike

British Medical Association (BMA) bosses claimed they had 'no choice but to call strikes' after the Government had failed to make a 'credible offer' to 'restore pay'.

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5 d. ago Resident doctors announce five July strike dates after Government refuses to negotiate on pay

NHS to be plunged into chaos as thousands of resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, walk out in pay row

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5 d. ago Indian workers go on a daylong nationwide strike against Modi's economic reforms

Hundreds of thousands of workers in India went on strike, opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's privatization plans and economic reforms

Economics

5 d. ago Wes Streeting warns doctors the public 'will not forgive' them for striking

It comes after the British Medical association voted to strike over pay

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