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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke and Kate Devlin

Public opposition to doctors’ strike at record high as Streeting hits out at ‘irresponsible’ Christmas walkout

Public opinion has turned on doctors’ strikes a new poll shows as Wes Streeting accused the British Medical Association of “juvenile delinquency” for planning to walk out over five consecutive days in the run-up to Christmas.

The health secretary branded the strike “irresponsible”, warning that the dates, just before the Christmas bank holidays and when the NHS is often in the midst of a ‘winter crisis’, represented a “different magnitude of risk” to previous industrial action.

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