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UNITE urged MPs yesterday to back a “vote of no confidence” in Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over his seven-day NHS plans.
MPs will consider on Monday whether Mr Hunt has “alienated the entire workforce of the NHS by threatening to impose a harsh contract and conditions on first consultants and soon the rest of the NHS staff.”
A petition calling for a vote of no confidence in Mr Hunt triggered the parliamentary debate after it received more than 220,000 signatures.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says