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Junior doctors to strike on week before general election

Source: PA Wire

Junior doctors in England will go on strike the week before the general election after mediated talks with the Government collapsed, the British Medical Association has announced.

Medics will walk out from 7am June 27 until 7am on July 2, the union said.

Talks had recently reopened with a view to ending the long-running dispute over pay between

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