BMA dismisses Starmer’s 48-hour warning over resident doctors’ strike plan – UK politics live

Prime minister threatens to withdraw NHS training posts for residents doctors if they don’t call off strike Good morning. Keir Starmer is chairing a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee later to discuss the Iran war, but domestic issues don’t go away and he (or, to be more accurate, his staff) have also found time to write an article for the Times delivering a warning to resident doctors in England planning to go on strike. As Jamie Grierson reports, the PM is threatening to wit
The US president made the remarks on social media in pointed remarks at allies who haven’t militarily supported the war on Iran
Q: What do you make of the suggestion that Donald Trump could end the Iran war without securing the strait of Hormuz? Or do you think he should finish the job?
Farage replies:
I don’t think we should take literally anything right now that Donald Trump says … And then the last thing he’s going to do, or the last thing his colleagues in the White House are going to do, is to give the Iranians any idea of what their true intentions are.
Was it to remove nuclear capability? Was it aimed at regime change? I don’t think any of us quite know the absolute truth about that.
The problem is any third party inquiry is a waste of space unless you can subpoena police officers, social services, civil servants who were all part of turning the collective blind eye. And I think everything this government has done on this issue is an attempt to literally kick the can down the road, to not fully open this up.
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