Philp: Labour “worst negotiators in history”

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp attacks the government’s pay deals with junior doctors, accusing Labour of failing to get results or stop strikes. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think West Streeting and the Labour government are the worst negotiators in history.

00:04When they were elected a year ago, they threw enormous amounts of money,

00:08taxpayers' money, at their trade union paymasters,

00:11including, I think, a 22% increase in one single year for doctors.

00:16They didn't get any performance improvements in return for all of this extra money,

00:20and here we are a year later with strikes on the cards.

00:24They have done a terrible job.

00:25Labour have done a terrible job negotiating,

00:27and patients and the public are going to suffer,

00:30and taxpayers are quite literally going to pay the price with higher taxes.

00:34Labour has thrown money at public sector unions, not just in the NHS,

00:38but the train drivers and across the whole public sector,

00:40without getting any sort of performance improvement or reforms in return for that,

00:46not even getting a guarantee of no strike action for a few years.

00:49That was all a catastrophic mistake.

00:51Labour are also removing all of the Margaret Thatcher-era trade union legislation,

00:56and more recent legislation, making it harder to go on strike,

01:00so Labour are also writing a striker's charter,

01:03which means I'm afraid we're going to see more strikes in the future,

01:06and we're certainly going to see higher taxes,

01:09even more higher taxes, announced this autumn,

01:11on top of the higher taxes we've seen already,

01:13because of Labour's failings.

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