Nurses going on strike this week in England, Wales and Northern Ireland should be seen as “a badge of shame” for the government, Keir Starmer has said, as he accused Rishi Sunak at prime minister’s questions of putting political considerations above patient safety.
With the initial scheduled strike by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Unison due to begin on Thursday, Starmer grilled Sunak on the government’s refusal to discuss a more generous potential pay offer, which the RCN had said would mean the strikes would be paused.
