Steve Barclay says he is willing to offer bigger pay rise to doctors in England

Steve Barclay after appearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on 2 July. He says there needs to be ‘movement on both sides’ in the pay dispute. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Doctors in England could be offered a bigger pay rise after the health secretary admitted there needed to be “movement on both sides” in the long-running dispute, but refused to restart talks while strikes were planned.

Steve Barclay said that although he considered demands of a 35% salary increase to be unreasonable, a larger rise would be offered if negotiations were to resume.