Public sector strikes threatened to spiral out of control after train drivers and border guards announced new walkouts on Friday. Aslef announced the strike just 48 hours after securing an almost 15 per cent pay rise for drivers, spread across three years, to end a separate dispute. Earlier this month, Sir Keir Starmer’s Government also gave a 22 per cent …
Junior doctors’ strikes could cancel out the progress made on reducing the NHS waiting list, data suggest. The NHS posted a near record fall in the overall waiting list of 100,000 to 7.6 million in November, when there were no doctors’ strikes. It marked the largest decline since 2010, excluding three months at the start of the pandemic, and was …
