Resident doctors’ strike undermines union movement, says Wes Streeting

<p>Exclusive: Health secretary urges medics not to join BMA industrial action on Friday</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/24/resident-doctors-bma-strike-nhs-wes-streeting">Wes Streeting: this unnecessary strike will hurt patients</a></p></li></ul><p>A strike by resident doctors “enormously undermines the entire trade union movement”, Wes Streeting has argued, urging them not to join industrial action on Friday morning.</p><p>In an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/24/resident-doctors-bma-strike-nhs-wes-streeting">article for the Guardian</a>, the health secretary says the decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to push for new strikes in England immediately after receiving a pay rise of 22% to cover 2023-24 and 2024-25 is unreasonable and unprecedented.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/24/resident-doctors-strike-undermines-union-movement-wes-streeting-says">Continue reading...</a>