Ann Widdecombe has criticised junior doctors and consultants, following the announcement of plans for the healthcare workers to strike together for the first time in a continued dispute over pay and conditions.
Speaking to Dan Wootton on Dan Wootton Tonight, the former Conservative Minister weighed in on the fresh demands and the impact on NHS patients.
Ann said: “They're acting like brutes, and they are brutes to be doing this. I mean they know that every time they strike that puts pressure on the NHS queues and that somebody somewhere suffers.
“In fact quite a lot of people will suffer, and if the doctors and the consultants are out together, then that effect is going to be damning. Now, the very fact that they're prepared to do that in pursuit of a ludicrous pay claim of 35%, they're already well paid, I have no doubt at all that the value of the pay has been eroded over the years.
“That has also happened in an awful lot of other professions as well, and there's nothing unique to them about that.”
Widdecombe continued: “But even given that they are putting people at risk, putting people's welfare, possibly even their lives at risk, to line their own pockets. They are immoral. There is no other word for it.”
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