Junior doctors have begun a five-day walkout across England in an elongated dispute over pay. Medics are calling for a 35% pay increase, which both the Conservatives and Labour say they cannot afford, The British Medical Association pledged to call off the strike if the Prime Minister made a credible commitment to restore their pay. The union said it stands ready to talk and has already had some discussions with the Labour Party.
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00:00Overworked. Underpaid. Overworked. Underpaid. What do we want? Pay restoration. How are we going to get it? How are we going to get it?
00:12Claps don't pay the bills. Claps don't pay the bills.
00:17We care about being valued as a profession and our value has been undermined over a lot of years.
00:22We feel like we've had no choice. We've had 15 years of continued pay erosion in real terms and we're fed up.
00:28We don't want to put patient care at risk but we're under so much strain every day.
00:42What we're asking for from Rishi Sunak is a public commitment to resolving this dispute in the form of a credible offer that gives the committee confidence that it will be implemented on day one should the current government be re-elected.
00:55What if it's a different government?
00:57Well that will provide a blueprint on how to resolve this dispute.