Sunak’s ‘intransigence’ on pay will lead to more NHS strikes, warns top doctor

Exclusive: BMA council chair says medics will have no option but to stage more industrial action until ministers make credible offer'

Rishi Sunak's increasingly intransigent" and belligerent" stance on medics' pay is blocking the path to ending the industrial action in the NHS, leaving no option but to strike until the next general election, one of Britain's top doctors has warned.

Speaking to the Guardian on Friday after junior doctors launched a fifth round of industrial action, Prof Philip Banfield, the chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) council, said the union was standing firm and that doctors would continue to hold stoppages until they received a credible offer".