THE Tories were branded a roadblock, “with nothing to say” to stop NHS strikes today after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak claimed industrial action was the “number one reason” for the health service’s record-breaking waiting lists.

Blaming doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA), he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “The reason that waiting lists are going up is because we’ve got industrial action because doctors are on strike.

“We had stabilised it, it had stopped going up and it was forecast to start going down until industrial action started.”