Resident doctors’ strikes would be gift to Nigel Farage, warns Wes Streeting
by Eleni Courea Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6YMV6)
Exclusive: Labour fighting for survival of NHS, health secretary tells MPs as he prepares to meet BMA
Wes Streeting has said resident doctors' strikes would be a gift to Nigel Farage" before a meeting with the British Medical Association this week where he will seek to avert industrial action.
The health secretary told a meeting of Labour MPs on Monday that ministers were in the fight for the survival of the NHS" and if Labour failed, Farage would argue for it to be replaced by an insurance-style system.
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