Starmer urges doctors to accept deal to avert Christmas strikes amid 'super flu' outbreak
Sir Keir Starmer has called on resident doctors to accept a deal to prevent "reckless" strikes next week, describing it as "beyond belief" that they would go ahead amid a "super flu" outbreak.
Resident doctors - formerly known as junior doctors - in England are to strike for six days in the ongoing row over pay and jobs, the British Medical Association announced.
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