Junior Doctors Contract Debate
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Clive Lewis
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Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab)
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
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.