Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’
The news article discusses the ongoing dispute between the British government and the British Medical Association (BMA) over pay demands for doctors in England. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned that the doctors' union "will lose a war with this government" if they continue to strike. Streeting vowed that the Labour government would never meet the BMA's demand for a 29% pay rise, and accused the union of causing "damage" to the NHS through its "reckless" long walkout. He claimed the strikes were deliberately aimed at ruining the NHS's efforts to reduce its 7.4 million-strong care backlog, which Labour has promised to eradicate by 2029. Streeting also said the BMA's demands and strikes had left other NHS staff "dismayed and appalled". The article suggests that the government is prepared to withstand a prolonged series of strikes by the BMA.
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