Resident doctors to go on strike for five days amid dispute with Labour over pay

Resident doctors are set to go on strike for five days amid an ongoing dispute with Labour over pay.

They will strike from June 15 until June 19, the British Medical Association confirmed.

The strike announcement has come after the union's first round of talks with incoming Health Secretary James Murray.

The June walkout will commence from 7am on Monday June 15 and persist until 6.59am on Friday that week.

The BMA has further warned that Britons could face another round of strikes in July if no progress is made on the deal with Whitehall.

Dr Jack Fletcher, chairman of the BMA’s resident doctors’ committee, said: "We had hoped that a change in leadership at the Department of Health and Social Care would lead to a change in approach.

"Sadly, we have run up against the same unwillingness to move we encountered under Mr (Wes) Streeting.

"We were prepared to give Mr Murray time to settle into his role before completing the work his predecessor left unfinished – to both make a fair and meaningful pay offer and make concrete commitments to end the jobs bottleneck throttling the careers of our colleagues."

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