The High Court has ruled that plans for the nursing strike to last through the bank holiday weekend were illegal.
The walkout will now end on Monday, when the RCN’s six-month mandate for strikes lapses
“I firmly support the right to take industrial action within the law — but the government could not stand by and let plainly unlawful strike action go ahead,” Health Secretary Steve Barclay said in a statement.
“Steve Barclay may get a legal win today, but what he has done is he has lost the public and he has certainly lost nursing“ said the head of the Nurses Union Pat Cullen following the ruling in the High Court
