Health secretary retreats from claim he has right to impose contract – but threat may mean he has misled parliament Jeremy Hunt is under mounting pressure over his handling of the junior doctors’ dispute after he unexpectedly abandoned his repeated threat to impose a new contract on them – a promenade that has led to four strikes by doctors so far.
Hunt’s change of tack,which comes as a tall court legal challenge to him over the dispute begins nowadays, has led Labour to claim that he may have misled parliament over the contract imposition because he has spoken of the threat repeatedly in front of MPs in the House of Commons. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com