Strike by nurses is 'a badge of shame' for government, says Keir Starmer

Rishi Sunak was urged to end his ‘hibernation’ and meet nurses last night in a bid to avert their first ever nationwide strike today. 🗣 ‘Winter has arrived for our public services and we’ve got a PM who’s curled up in a ball and gone into hibernation.’

‘Winter has arrived for our public services and we’ve got a PM who’s curled up in a ball and gone into hibernation.’

‘We’re protecting the public, they’re protecting their paymasters,’ he said. ‘For working people in this country it’s Labour’s nightmare before Christmas.’Health leaders said patients should expect a ‘bank holiday’ level of service when nurses walk out today and on Tuesday – postponing up to 15,000 operations.

But NHS England’s cancer chief, Dame Cally Palmer, warned the union the plans could disrupt 1,000 cancer patients’ appointments.

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