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Streeting says NHS ‘coping’ during resident doctors’ strike but faces difficult recovery over Christmas – UK politics live

todayDecember 21, 2025

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Five-day industrial action is due to end tomorrow, and health secretary says talks will resume in new year

We have some comments given by the Labour party chair Anna Turley to Sky News’ Trevor Phillips this morning. He asked her if Keir Starmer is incapable of taking “tough decisions until it’s too late”, something the prime minister said to Boris Johnson in 2020.

Turley defended the government’s record, saying it has “stabilised” the economy after “inheriting an absolute wreck” from the previous Conservative administration.

Streeting says the British Medical Association is being unreasonable; the BMA, the doctors union, blames him for not rewarding medics properly for their vital work.

After eight strikes under the Tories and now three under Labour, the prospects of a settlement look as distant as at any point in the last 33 months. “At this rate, this is going to drag on and on and on all next year unless something changes. It’s never-ending,” said one NHS official.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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