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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Resident doctors accuse Keir Starmer of sabotaging talks to end pay and jobs dispute

Keir Starmer making a local elections pitch in a pavilion bedecked with British flags
Keir Starmer making a local elections pitch in Milton Keynes on Wednesday. The prime minister has urged resident doctors to accept the government’s pay deal. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Resident doctors have accused Keir Starmer of damaging the prospects of a deal to end their pay and jobs dispute by threatening to cut 1,000 new jobs for medics in the NHS.

The claim from the British Medical Association leaders came just before the Thursday deadline given by the prime minister for the union to accept the government’s final offer.

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