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Fiona Bruce skewered a Lib Dem MP for dodging a query on BBC Question Time. The second got here because the present mentioned resident docs, beforehand generally known as junior docs, demanding a 29% pay hike as they’re balloted for strike motion by the British Medical Association (BMA).

The BBC host ask Lib Dem hospitals and first care spokesperson Jess Brown-Fuller: “Is the 29% pay justified? Do the Lib Dems support it?” She replied: “It’s a good question and I’d need to see the figures to work out whether that feels affordable.”

Ms Bruce pressed: “But you must be across it, this is your brief. So do you, as spokesperson for the Lib Dems on hospitals, support it?”

Ms Brown-Fuller went on: “Do you know what I support? I support making sure that all of our doctors and support staff working in hospitals can go to work and work in a hospital…”

The BBC presenter then interrupted, saying: “That’s not answering the question. This is your policy area. Do you support it or not?”

Continuing to keep away from giving a straight reply, Ms Brown-Fuller mentioned: “What I support is the Government should be focusing on getting the 40 new hospitals that the Conservatives promised and were never going to deliver actually built and I support making sure the hospital estates work and function so people aren’t giving birth in rooms where the ceiling’s falling down.”

Ms Bruce then requested the viewers if it was a solution to the query, to which they referred to as again: “No.”

The host added: “Come on Jess, put your money where your mouth is, yes or no?”

The Lib Dem MP replied: “I think I’d have to look at the figure but it feels like a big number.”