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8:35Now PlayingNick Ferrari is joined by Matt Vickers, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and Andrew Fisher, columnist with The i newspaper and former senior policy adviser to Jeremy Corbyn.
Earlier this week Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that her party would introduce primary legislation to block medics from taking widespread industrial action, placing the same restrictions on them that apply to police officers and soldiers.
Thousands of resident doctors, previously known as junior doctors, began a five-day walkout on Friday after relations between the Government and British Medical Association (BMA) soured over a dispute about pay.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said the union will not be allowed to "hold the country to ransom" after receiving a 28.9% pay award over the last three years, the highest across the public sector.
The BMA says that despite this uplift, pay for resident doctors has declined by a fifth since 2008 once inflation is taken into account.
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