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Kemi Badenoch mentioned Sir Keir Starmer is not going to take heed to Tory calls for to ban medical doctors from occurring strike as a result of he “doesn’t have the baubles” to confront his union paymasters. Junior medical doctors are set to cripple the NHS with a five-day strike that began on Wednesday over but extra calls for for eye-watering pay rises.

While Sir Keir has condemned the strikes, the Tories have slammed him for encouraging additional walkouts by giving the British Medical Association an enormous pay rise final yr with none strings hooked up. Mrs Badenoch skewered him at Prime Minister’s Questions, demanding he put sufferers first and ban medical doctors from occurring strike – much like guidelines that apply to police and the navy. She added with a festive twist: “Of course he’s not going to ban doctors’ strikes – he doesn’t have the baubles!”

“We all know who’s running their party, and it’s not him. The trade unions didn’t just buy him for Christmas, they bought him for life.

“And this matters for all those people out there facing a difficult new year. The Prime Minister has lost control.”

Sir Keir refused to again banning medical doctors from hanging, however condemned the BMA’s newest walkout as “dangerous and utterly irresponsible”.

He added: “My message to resident doctors is to work with us to improve conditions and rebuild the NHS.

However, he hit back that the Tories had left the NHS “on its knees”.

Speaking on the Commons’ Health Select Committee this morning, Health Secretary Wes Streeting mentioned it will have been unfair to offer in to the BMA’s pay rise calls for to avert this week’s newest strike.

He insisted: “At the moment we’re entirely focused on getting the NHS through the next five days of industrial action.

“I’m probably just as, if not more, worried about the weeks that follow, because frankly, the consultants getting us through the next five days are the consultants we would normally be asking to put in extra shifts, extra effort to get us through the usual new year peak pressures.

“They’re going to be more knackered as a result.

“I feel that weight of responsibility to and for them. It is dicey … I think we’re off to a decent start, but this is going to be a challenging five days and a really challenging few weeks.

“We’re doing everything we can to keep the show on the road.”