Jeremy Hunt isn’t going to back down on the changes to junior doctors’ contracts despite a growing row over the issue. When asked by Danny Finkelstein at a Times fringe about whether he might change his mind on the matter, he replied that the changes to the contract were essential to the introduction of the seven day NHS and so there would be no backing down. Hunt, who normally prides himself on his reasonable manner, was particularly critical of what the British Medical Association has been saying about these changes; claiming that they were systematically misleading people.
There was no danger of triumphalism on Hunt’s part when he talked about Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader. He described it as a defeat for the centre-right as it meant there is no longer a cross-party consensus on the market economy and the like.
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