strikes
The 22 days of walkouts are unrelated to the 15% rise agreed with the government.
Ministers say the awards are needed to bring an end to crippling strikes.
The anti-strike Minimum Service Levels Act failed to stop a single walkout.
The Minimum Service Level Act was meant to bring an end to disruption caused by industrial action. It hasn't.
The prime minister had hoped that an end to the long-running dispute was in sight.
"I didn’t realise this was real."
News of an expected pay rise for MPs has come as the NHS faces another wave of strikes over salaries.
The Today programme presenter roasted the health secretary over plans to ban doctors from taking industrial action.
Consultants and junior doctors will walk out together for the first time in the health service's history.
“Those record profits have not been shared fairly, in my view, with those workers," he said.