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Fri 20th Nov 2015

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Debate between Alistair Burt and Clive Lewis
Friday 20th November 2015

(9 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Clive Lewis Portrait Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab)
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When the NHS is facing a winter crisis, why have the Government decided to pick a fight with the very people who will get it through that crisis?

Alistair Burt Portrait Alistair Burt
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The Secretary of State has not picked a fight. Three and a half years of negotiation on a new contract, publicising the offer, and being willing for negotiations—which he did not withdraw from—to restart, is a funny definition of picking a fight.