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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

Starmer urged to drop key workers’ rights pledge to prevent ‘people dying’ from doctors’ strike

Kemi Badenoch has offered to work with the Labour government “in the national interest” to tackle the “militant” doctors’ strike – but only if Keir Starmer reverses a key election pledge.

With resident doctors – previously called junior doctors – in the middle of a five-day strike over their demand for a 29 per cent pay rise, the Tory leader has warned that “people are going to die” as a result.

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