Streeting Says Bma ‘shockingly Irresponsible’ Over Tactics For Doctors’ Strikes – Uk Politics Live

Streeting says BMA's strategies 'shockingly irresponsible' because resident doctors being urged not to show trusts if they're striking

At nan wellness committee, successful consequence to a mobility from Alex McIntyre (Lab), Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, says he is pleased that nan BMA has agreed to a gathering this week to talk really nan resident doctors’ onslaught could beryllium averted.

He says:

I person to beryllium clear pinch nan committee, arsenic I was pinch nan House past week, that location is nary much room for manoeuvre connected pay, but location are tons of different things that we tin do and should do that would lead to worldly improvements.

He says, if nan BMA goes up pinch nan strike, that will beryllium a “catastrophic mistake”.

He says he hopes he and nan BMA tin find a measurement of avoiding “the misery that will beryllium inflicted” by nan strike.

Q: What effect would it person connected waiting lists?

Streeting says nan authorities tin mitigate against nan effect of strikes. But it cannot extremity them person consequences, he says.

He says appointments would beryllium delayed. He says he has a comparative waiting for an appointment, and he says they are “dreading what I fearfulness is an inevitable telephone call”.

He goes on:

The different point that I person recovered really shockingly irresponsible astir nan BMA’s position is their leaders look to beryllium telling their members not to pass their trusts aliases their employers if they’re going retired connected strike.

Now, I mightiness not work together pinch nan BMA onslaught action, but I do judge they person a correct to strike. I do judge they’ve followed nan rules successful bid to spell connected strike.

What I cannot fathom is really immoderate expert successful bully conscience would make it harder for managers to make judge we person safe staffing levels, would make it harder for different unit who are going to beryllium turning up to activity that day, not slightest nan unit who person not had a higher percent salary rise, galore of whom are paid little than resident doctors.

So I conscionable deliberation nan benignant of nan BMA’s attack to this from commencement to decorativeness has been wholly wrong.

Wes Streeting astatine nan wellness committee Photograph: HoC

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Gregory Stafford (Con) asks Streeting why he seemed to deliberation it was acceptable for resident doctors to spell connected onslaught erstwhile nan Conservatives were successful power, but not now that Labour is successful power.

Streeting says he thought nan erstwhile strikes were avoidable. At nan clip nan authorities was refusing to beryllium down and discuss pinch nan BMA, he says.

Streeting says BMA's strategies 'shockingly irresponsible' because resident doctors being urged not to show trusts if they're striking

At nan wellness committee, successful consequence to a mobility from Alex McIntyre (Lab), Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, says he is pleased that nan BMA has agreed to a gathering this week to talk really nan resident doctors’ onslaught could beryllium averted.

He says:

I person to beryllium clear pinch nan committee, arsenic I was pinch nan House past week, that location is nary much room for manoeuvre connected pay, but location are tons of different things that we tin do and should do that would lead to worldly improvements.

He says, if nan BMA goes up pinch nan strike, that will beryllium a “catastrophic mistake”.

He says he hopes he and nan BMA tin find a measurement of avoiding “the misery that will beryllium inflicted” by nan strike.

Q: What effect would it person connected waiting lists?

Streeting says nan authorities tin mitigate against nan effect of strikes. But it cannot extremity them person consequences, he says.

He says appointments would beryllium delayed. He says he has a comparative waiting for an appointment, and he says they are “dreading what I fearfulness is an inevitable telephone call”.

He goes on:

The different point that I person recovered really shockingly irresponsible astir nan BMA’s position is their leaders look to beryllium telling their members not to pass their trusts aliases their employers if they’re going retired connected strike.

Now, I mightiness not work together pinch nan BMA onslaught action, but I do judge they person a correct to strike. I do judge they’ve followed nan rules successful bid to spell connected strike.

What I cannot fathom is really immoderate expert successful bully conscience would make it harder for managers to make judge we person safe staffing levels, would make it harder for different unit who are going to beryllium turning up to activity that day, not slightest nan unit who person not had a higher percent salary rise, galore of whom are paid little than resident doctors.

So I conscionable deliberation nan benignant of nan BMA’s attack to this from commencement to decorativeness has been wholly wrong.

Wes Streeting astatine nan wellness committee Photograph: HoC

The Stop Trump Coalition says it wants various protestation movements to travel together to show their guidance to President Trump’s authorities visit.

Commenting connected nan projected objection successful London connected Wednesday 17 September, nan time nan US president arrives successful London (see 12.18pm), Seema Syeda, a spokesperson for nan coalition, said:

This will beryllium a monolithic protestation against Trump’s authorities visit.

Trump and his authoritarian authorities are not invited here.

Keir Starmer should not beryllium rolling retired nan reddish carpet for Trump.

They are already moving scared. They person chosen nan first imaginable day that stops Trump from being capable to reside parliament.

We cognize that Trump is profoundly unpopular pinch nan public. We mobilised hundreds of thousands of group against Trump during his first term, and he has only sewage worse since then.

We are moving astatine velocity to bring together each nan movements – for democracy, for equality, against ambiance change, for a free Palestine – to show our unity against Trump.

No 10 ducks questions astir whether PM would person favoured Trump being capable to reside parliament during authorities visit

Nigel Farage, nan Reform UK leader, is saying that parliament should beryllium recalled truthful Donald Trump tin reside MPs and peers during his authorities visit. (See 11.36am.) Ed Davey, nan Lib Dem leader, seems to deliberation nan opposite. No instrumentality of Trump’s, Davey says nan Canadian PM Mark Carney should beryllium invited for an charismatic sojourn first, and that Carney should get a speaking slot successful parliament. Davey posted this on societal media.

At nan Downing Street lobby briefing nan PM’s spokesperson ducked questions astir whether aliases not Keir Starmer wanted to spot Trump reside parliament.

Asked whether Starmer would for illustration to spot Trump reside parliament, nan spokesperson said:

That’s a matter for nan palace and nan president, successful narration to nan dates connected nan visit.

Asked again if having Trump reside parliament was thing nan PM would welcome, nan spokesperson said this was “also a matter for parliament, successful narration to invites”.

The spokesperson said he would “firmly steer” reporters distant from suggestions that nan timing of Trump’s sojourn was related to parliament being successful recess astatine nan time.

Asked again what Starmer thought of nan rule of Trump addressing parliament, nan spokesperson said nan PM was focused connected welcoming Trump to nan UK for a 2nd authorities visit.

As Kevin Schofield reports at HuffPost UK, authorities sources person confirmed that parliament will not beryllium recalled for Trump’s visit, arsenic Farage proposed.

Wes Streeting questioned by Commons wellness committee astir 10-year NHS plan

Wes Streeting, nan wellness secretary, is giving grounds to nan Commons wellness committee astir nan 10-year wellness scheme nan week earlier last. There is simply a unrecorded feed here.

Streeting starts by saying responses to nan scheme person been “extremely positive”.

No 10 declines to remark connected 'internal guidance' gagging officials, but claims 'principles' that use stay unchanged

Downing Street has claimed that nan “principles” that authorities really civilian servants tin prosecute pinch nan media person not changed.

Asked to respond to nan missive successful nan Times coming from experts criticising nan ways officials person been gagged from speaking astatine events wherever journalists are coming (see 12.09pm), nan No 10 spokesperson said he would not talk “internal guidance”.

But he went on:

Civil work rules astir media engagement are agelong standing. They’ve been group retired antecedently successful nan civilian servant guidance codification and successful nan civilian work code.

It’s ever been nan lawsuit that ministers are yet accountable for decisions to parliament, and to nan public, and it’s evidently correct that ministers chiefly are scrutinised by nan media and members [of parliament]. The guidance simply seeks to instrumentality [that].

Asked if he was saying thing had changed, nan spokesperson replied:

The principles astir civilian servants’ engagement pinch nan media are unchanged …. Clearly it is nan lawsuit that … elder officials do prosecute pinch stakeholders and members of nan media, but ever pinch successful statement pinch nan civilian work code.

The experts who person signed nan Times missive opportunity nan caller guidance does magnitude to a alteration successful approach. They say:

Effective authorities relies connected nationalist servants, whose salaries are paid by nan taxpayer, proceeding straight from businesses, charities, academics and citizens to thief them make amended policy. They should beryllium capable to explicate authorities activity to those aforesaid groups. Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, speaking for nan authorities astir nan guidance, recognised this erstwhile she said that location was a “a work connected our civilian servants to prosecute each day”.

The unpublished guidance contradicts this, saying that “officials speaking astatine a sector-facing arena pinch Q&A and/or media expected to beryllium successful nan assemblage … should not spell ahead”. It is causing disorder and a chilling effect connected nationalist discussion. It should beryllium withdrawn.

Reeves says Labour's manifesto commitments ruling retired awesome taxation rises 'absolutely stand'

Rachel Reeves, nan chancellor, has refused to remark connected imaginable taxation changes successful nan budget, beyond saying nan authorities remains committed to its manifesto commitments. Speaking to reporters, she said:

We haven’t moreover group nan day for nan fund yet, truthful please forgive maine if I’m not going to estimate astir what mightiness hap astatine an arena that we haven’t moreover decided a day connected yet.

But we’ve been really clear successful our manifesto astir nan taxes that we won’t increase, and we’re not going to summation nan taxes that moving group pay, their income tax, their nationalist security and their VAT, because I do recognise nan struggle that mean moving group person faced these past fewer years pinch nan costs of living.

And truthful those manifesto commitments astir income tax, nationalist security and VAT, they perfectly stand.

Rachel Reeves speaking to nan media during a sojourn to Westleigh Methodist Primary School successful Wigan today. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

No 10 plays down hints income taxation thresholds could beryllium stiff successful budget

Downing Street has played down hints that nan authorities mightiness frost income taxation thresholds successful nan autumn budget.

Darren Jones, main caput to nan Treasury, hinted arsenic overmuch successful an interviews this moning erstwhile he suggested that nan Labour manifesto committedness not to raise income taxation only applied to nan “headline” rate. (See 9.31am.)

At nan lobby briefing, asked if nan reference to nan “headline” complaint meant nan authorities was “moving nan goalposts” successful narration to its taxation pledge, nan PM’s spokersperson denied that and said Jones was conscionable mounting retired nan manifesto commitment.

But, erstwhile asked if nan wording of nan manifesto committedness would let a authorities to frost thresholds without nan ‘no taxation increases for moving people’ promise being broken, nan spokesperson conscionable said “you’ve sewage nan manifesto language”. And he said Rachel Reeves, chancellor, and Jones person spoken astir taxation policy. But he would not “get ahead” of nan budget, he said.

Asked if nan authorities still stood by what Reeves said successful nan fund past year, erstwhile she said she would not beryllium extending nan income taxation period freeze, nan spokesperson replied:

You’ve sewage nan chancellor’s connection connected that. It’s up to nan chancellor to group retired fiscal policy, arsenic she did astatine nan past budget.

The government’s attack is clear. We want to support moving people. We want to support surviving standards. We want to support taxes down. We want to summation existent wages, and that’s nan attack we’ve taken today, and nan attack we’ll proceed to take.

When asked if he accepted that freezing thresholds would magnitude to a taxation emergence for moving people, nan spokesperson said reporters had “the chancellor’s language” and he did not person immoderate changes to that. The authorities wanted to support taxes down for moving people, he said. But he said taxation argumentation changes would beryllium announced successful nan budget.

No 10 confirms Starmer to meet Trump erstwhile US president visits Scotland later this month

At nan Downing Street lobby briefing, nan PM’s spokesperson confirmed that Keir Starmer is expected to meet Donald Trump erstwhile he goes to Scotland for a backstage sojourn later this month. The spokesperson said:

There will not beryllium a general bilateral but nan premier curate is pleased to return up nan president’s induce to meet during his stay.

Rachel Reeves, nan chancellor, will denote plans to get free of immoderate financial reddish portion successful her Mansion House reside tomorrow, nan Financial Times is reporting.

In his story George Parker says;

Rachel Reeves will connected Tuesday group retired a imagination for Britain’s financial services manufacture based connected sound nationalist finances and a regulatory strategy geared towards maturation alternatively than eliminating consequence …

An state of nan chancellor said she would denote plans to tear up “reams of financial reddish tape” and that she would beryllium “ruthless successful slashing rules that make nan UK uncompetitive”.

People briefed connected nan reside said she would accelerate reforms to nan “senior managers’ regime”, accountability rules introduced aft nan 2008 financial clang that nan City has complained are excessively onerous.

Stop Trump Coalition announces planned objection against US president erstwhile authorities sojourn starts

President Trump’s authorities sojourn to nan UK is much than 2 months away. But nan Stop Trump Coalition has already started readying a demonstration against him for Wednesday 17 September, nan time he arrives.