civil servants just staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servants just some - staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servantsjust some of - staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servantsjust some of those | staff. but with nurses, teachers, l civil servantsjust some of those in civil servants just some of those in dispute, we have one big question this morning can we avoid a summer of strikes? in the last half hour, the health secretary has written to pat cullen, the woman who ll lead the nurses onto the picket lines for their most serious strike. she s here in the studio. and so will be the the cabinet minister, tory chairman, greg hands. how will the government stop that strike from happening? but you might wonder, does labour have a better answer? the shadow health secretary, wes streeting, is with us. and we ll lift our eyes to the heavens thejupiter icy moons explorer begins its eight yearjourney hunting for life beyond earth. professor carole mundell is the
nurses, do you support the strikes? how could i? it is a risk to patient safety. i understand why they are in this position. when you re got a government that tells nurses. it is not surprising that nurses do not have a great deal of goodwill towards the government. just this week, just today, you re got the health secretary writing in the sun newspaper as if he is writing an agony aunt column, as if somehow he is a commentator, a passing observer rather than someone with notjust power but responsibility to try to resolve the strikes. whether it is junior doctors, whether it is nurses, we are going to be back here again and again and again unless the government can give people a sense of hope and alight government can give people a sense of hope and a light at the end of the tunnel that things are going to get better. i think that is what is missing. they are repeating the mistakes they made with the nurses all over again with junior doctors. the disruption this week was worse than the
about these strikes. more strike action today. it will worry and concern a lot of people. are there any prospective meetings at all, is there any prospect of any compromise or breakthrough that might end this wave of industrial action? particularly what we re seeing in the nhs? ., ., , , the nhs? the government, as things stand, isn t budging the nhs? the government, as things stand, isn t budging on the nhs? the government, as things stand, isn t budging on that - the nhs? the government, as things stand, isn t budging on that key - stand, isn t budging on that key issue of pay, which the unions say issue of pay, which the unions say is a prerequisite for meaningful talks that could end these disputes. one is quite interesting is this morning, that there is a blame game in full flow on it tv, the radio, newspapers, between the government and the unions, you ve got the health secretary writing in the telegraph this morning to quote him, the ambulance unions have made a conscious de
that a much more permissive regime of covid measures could be put in place. with me now is our political correspondent nick eardley. we have also heard this morning from the health secretary who has done an article in one of the papers. is it now almost certain the 19th ofjuly will see almost everything go? we can be as will see almost everything go? - can be as certain as we can be at the moment. there are still key decisions to be made in the coming days. we have a bunch of committees that make these big decisions for the government, they involve the scientists and the medics as well. but all the mood music from the government in terms of england is extremely positive. we have sajid javid the new health secretary writing in the mail on sunday this morning that there were compelling health reasons, notjust economic, but health reasons as well to lift the restrictions that remain. this morning robertjenrick, the housing secretary, has been making it clear