Tories: Streeting could've obtained no-strike agreement befo

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Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Richard Fuller says that the Health Secretary Wes Streeting could've got a no-strike agreement with the BMA in last year's pay rise deal for NHS resident doctors, and the fact that he didn't means the British public will "pay the price".   Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00To be fair to the Secretary of State, the proposal about non-financial elements of the deal for

00:07junior doctors, sorry, resident doctors, is a good thing to do. But why, oh, why didn't he do that

00:12last year when they were having the negotiations about that very large pay increase? He could have

00:17covered some of those issues about priority places. He could have covered some of the issues

00:21about not having to pay some of the mandatory fees. And at that stage, then got a no-strike

00:26agreement as part of this very big pay rise. He didn't do that. I'm afraid he's now looking

00:31at the consequences, but the British public will pay the consequences if strike goes ahead

00:35by seeing operations delayed and more delays at A&E.

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