Junior doctors’ decision to strike just before General Election is their most blatantly political act yet

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THE surgical mask hasn’t merely slipped: it’s been ripped off and thrown in the gutter.

The decision by junior doctors to hold yet another strike, only days before the General Election, is their most blatantly political act yet.

The BMA — now on its 11th walkout since March last year — should have waited for a new Government before re-starting pay talks.

But such is its Marxist leadership’s hatred of the Tories it cannot resist jumping at the chance to influence the outcome of the election — at the expense of extending the pain and suffering of patients on waiting lists.

Indeed, in a show of open contempt for the sick, they even boast about how this round of action will be “the biggest and loudest” so far.

Unforgivably, more than a million appointments have now been cancelled or postponed, at a cost of billions of pounds to the NHS.
Sir Keir Starmer has rightly condemned the strikes.

He will need to stick to this line if, as the polls suggest, he’s next in line to face the BMA’s absurd demand for a 35 per cent pay rise.

China crisis

EX-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith says Chinese spies are stalking senior politicians during the election, himself included.

He told our Never Mind the Ballots show that Beijing operatives — who he calls “Wolf Warriors” — target him around the world, and are spying on his campaign.

The news follows a warning to candidates from MI5 to be vigilant against efforts to “manipulate or compromise the UK electoral process” by hostile states. And it comes only a few weeks after China was accused of a huge data hack against the Ministry of Defence.

All of which begs the question: why did some of our politicians naively think it was a good idea to ever cosy up to China?

And what are they now going to do about the grave threat it poses to our democracy?

Labour’s fibs

SHADOW chancellor Rachel Reeves insists she can avoid putting up income tax and National Insurance while at the same time pouring more money into public services.

Her claims would be a lot easier to believe if Labour told the truth about what has hit our economy over the past few years. Yes, Liz

Truss’s mini-budget was a fiasco.

But pretending that Covid and the Ukraine war weren’t the trigger for the cost of living crisis is an insult to the electorate’s intelligence.