Wes Streeting responds to RCN nurses voting for strike action

Wes Streeting MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to RCN nurses voting for strike action, said:

“There were no strikes in the NHS during 13 years when Labour was last in government. If we were in office today, we would be talking with the RCN and doing everything we can to prevent these strikes going ahead.

“Government ministers spent the summer dodging calls and requests for meetings from the Royal College of Nursing. It is unacceptable negligence. 

“The Conservatives have stopped governing and it is nurses and patients who will be made to pay the price.”