The PM and his ministers underestimated the popular support NHS staff, and nurses in particular, carry in the wake of the pandemic
There were even reports before Christmas that the PM was being advised inside Downing Street to sit tight, because the public would eventually turn against striking nurses and other NHS workers
But the breakthrough came only after weeks of a bitter stand-off, with hundreds of thousands of nurses, ambulance workers and other NHS staff leaving theirWhen he inherited the dispute from his predecessors, Mr Sunak insisted that the pay offer to NHS staff for 2022-23 would not be reopened for fear of fuelling inflation already running at double digits. That, we were told, was a non-negotiable red line.
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