Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he thinks the strike by junior doctors is ‘unnecessary’.
Mr Streeting also said he did not believe the polls showing an historic Labour majority, saying he was speaking to a lot of undecided voters.
Speaking on GB News, Wes Streeting said: “We've got a week now in which people need to decide to choose change, and you only get change if you vote for it. And it's no secret that Conservatives haven’t run a brilliant election campaign, let's be honest. But the one thing they are doing, I think, quite effectively, is to suggest that there's an inevitability about a Labour government.
“And they're pretty much saying put your feet up. Don't bother voting Labour. Or to say in tight Labour-Tory races,’ Yeah, you can vote for those Lib Dems or the Greens because Labour is going to get in any way.’
“In the conversations on the doorstep, they just don't reflect these wild polls. I'm still talking to undecided voters in huge numbers a week out from the general election, and to people who voted by post who said to me just last weekend when I was in the northeast, 'Actually, I voted Conservative.’
“And when I sort of said, ‘Is there anything we could have done to win you over?’ They said, ‘Well, you're going to get in anyway and we do need an opposition.’
“I’ve been brought up to believe if it looks too good to be true, it's too good to be true. It doesn't reflect what we're feeling. And more than that, the polling industry is an industry that is addicted to calling it wrong and doing it very loudly.
“They called it wrong on Brexit. They called it wrong on Trump. They called it wrong in a number of general elections. It's not the pollsters and it's not the bookies that decide general elections, it's millions of voters.”
Discussing the junior doctors’ strike, Wes Streeting said:“We would not give them 35 per cent and it's so important to get that out on this side of the election.
“If I'm Health Secretary next Friday, let me negotiate with them. We've got to get people around the table.
“I'm not happy about the strikes. These are unnecessary strikes for the next five days.
“We're so close to the general election. I wanted them to wait and give me a chance, if I'm the health secretary, to sort this out. But we are where we are. I've said that we can negotiate on pay. They've shown a willingness to move on pay too: therein lies an opportunity.'
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