Wes Streeting Urges Junior Doctors to Cancel Pre-Election Strike

The shadow secretary said ’the money isn’t there' to give junior doctors a 35 percent pay rise, but promised to negotiate on pay and conditions.

Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association outside St. Thomas's Hospital, London, as they take to picket lines for six days during their continuing dispute over pay, on Jan. 3, 2024. Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Wes Streeting has urged junior doctors to call off their planned pre-election strike, promising to call them “on day one” if Labour wins on July 4.

The shadow health secretary said he’s “beyond furious” that the dispute, which has lasted for more than a year, is still ongoing, but added that “the money isn’t there” to give junior doctors a 35 percent pay rise.