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Rishi Sunak Hints at Change in Approach to Striking Workers

Demonstrators on a picket line during a strike by NHS nursing staff outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, UK, on Dec. 20, 2022.
Demonstrators on a picket line during a strike by NHS nursing staff outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, UK, on Dec. 20, 2022.Photographer: Anthony Devlin/Bloomberg
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hinted the UK government may take a softer line against striking workers as he delivered a speech setting out his government’s priorities.

“We hugely value public sector workers like nurses: that’s why we want a reasonable dialog with the unions about what’s responsible and fair for our country,” Sunak said on Wednesday in London. “In the coming days we’ll update you on the government’s next steps.”