'Recent strikes stoke questions about what a Labour government would do instead'

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Keir Starmer with medics
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The junior doctors' strike is becoming Labour's problem – and it has no easy answers

Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian

Recent industrial action has revealed a "wider malaise" among young professionals, says Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian, "something the next government will inherit". The opposition party could previously "get away with" calling for ministers to "get back round the table", but is now "deep into the era" where "power shifts decisively away from a government". And "all anyone wants to know is what the next lot would do instead".

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