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hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. let s turn to west minister because the labour leader sir keir starmer says. his party s victory in one of three by elections is a cry for change from british voters. and he says labour is making big strides forward after overturning a huge conservative majority. but the prime minister rishi sunak has insisted the next general election is not a done deal after his conservative party achieved a surprising narrow win in west london. and the liberal democrats have been celebrating after they won in somerset labour gained the selby and ainsty seat in north yorkshire from the tories. let s go straight to samantha simmons. let s go straight to samantha simmon let s go straight to samantha simmons. ., ,, ., simmons. labour took the selby and ncc at north simmons. labour took the selby and ncc at north yorkshire simmons. labour took the selb ....
accompanied by strong winds, especially in the west. all the details later in the programme. it s friday, the 14th ofjuly. there are calls for clarity over how the government will fund pay rises of up to 7% for more than a million public sector workers. several unions have welcomed the latest offers, but others say they re not enough, as our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. chanting: cuts don t pay the bills. stopping the strikes is the government s hope. but afterjunior doctors in england began another walkout yesterday, they said the 6% rise they d been offered was not enough. appointments and operations cancelled again, adding to a mounting backlog for the nhs. and, as ministers urged unions to say yes to the increases offered, they warned there could be more to come. i think there will be a new wave of strikes in the nhs and what really needs to happen is the government needs to come to the table, pay a proper pay rise to these workers. i think everyb ....
last few days. she is the favourite to win another gold at the world para athletics. a championship record on her way to tonight s final in paris. hello. junior doctors in england have begun a five day strike, in a major escalation of their pay dispute. the industrial action is described by their union as the longest in nhs history, with patients being warned that severe disruption is inevitable. downing street says the strike, by members of the british medical association, will put patient safety at risk. the union has urged ministers to follow the example of scotland, where a new pay deal was offered, a 17.5% increase over two years. our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson, has our top story. claps don t pay the bills! junior doctors back on the picket line for theirfourth walk out this year. but the nhs is braced itself for today, the start of a marathon five day strike. like many hospitals, here at the royal berkshire in reading, they know they ll be stretched. ....
from the pay review bodies in full but it came with a warning from the prime minister, rishi sunak, that this was a final offer and further industrial action would not change that decision. the teaching unions responded immediately, saying they would recommend their members accept the offer. and end strike action. the announcement came as junior doctors began five days of strikes, what their union calls, the longest stirke action in the history of the nhs. they re demanding a pay increase of 35%. ministers have said, that s unreasonable and risks fuelling inflation. we ll have more on that in a minute. let s have a quick look, though, at the recommendations, which affect millions of workers. police officers have been offered 7%. consultants, dentists and gps, 6%. junior doctors, 6%. prison officers, 7%. the armed forces, 5%. teachers 6.5%. this was rishi sunak a little earlier. i can confirm today that we are accepting the headline recommendations of the pay review ....
the prime minister, rishi sunak, said there would be no new borrowing to fund the rises. instead, they will come from what he called efficiencies from existing budgets. here s how mr sunak made the announcement, a little earlier: ican i can confirm today that we are accepting the headline recommendations made by the union body in full. but we are not making this by doing tax rises. it would not be right to include tax rises for everyone to pay for some to be paid more, physically when household budgets are so tight. nor would it be right to pay for it by more boring because high borrowing just makes inflation worse. instead, because we have a fixed pot of money to spend from, that means government departments have had to find efficiencies and savings elsewhere, in order to prioritise paying public sector workers more. there is a clear message here. there are always choices. budgets are not infinite. when some ask for higher pay, that will always create pressures elsew ....