Jeremy Hunt has backed calls to curb nurses' right to go on strike, with as many as 100,000 nurses set to walk out on Thursday over a pay dispute
Asked by LBC's Andrew Marr on Tuesday whether he supported calls by Cabinet colleague Gillian Keegan to lengthen the list of public service workers barred from industrial action, the Chancellor said that "people in the services that we depend on for our life should commit to minimum services levels".Nurses, who are set to go on strike on Thursday and next Tuesday after the Royal College of Nursing's demands for a 19.
Pressed by Andrew for more detail, Mr Hunt said that "the government will publish in due course what its plans are." He added: I think at the moment what we would like to do is to find a way not to have these strikes, and because we recognise that the concerns of nurses in particular are very sincerely held.
"We understand why people are very angry with the high inflation levels - we also have our sincerely held position."
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