JEREMY HUNT showed his utter contempt for health professionals and unions yesterday after he vowed to carry out his threat to force junior doctors to sign potentially dangerous new contracts.

The Health Secretary told the Commons he would plough ahead with imposing the new contracts, claiming that he had made a “best and final” offer to the British Medical Association (BMA) on Wednesday during its strike, but the offer was rejected.

He even went as far to say that given time the changes would be accepted as “a good thing.”