UK’s Starmer gives doctors’ union 48 hours to reconsider pay and workforce deal

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on the union for resident doctors in England to reconsider a proposed pay and workforce deal, giving it 48 hours to accept the offer as he warned that planned strikes would hurt doctors and patients.

Writing in the Times newspaper, Starmer said the British Medical Association had taken a “reckless” step by refusing to put the offer to a vote of its members, while announcing six days of strikes in April.

So-called resident doctors in England...