Phil Taylor: Hunt is right about a seven day working NHS

This is a straight industrial dispute about pay, and high falutin rhetoric about patient safety, privatisation and all the rest is just that.

Fox tops our next leader poll – but with the joint lowest frontrunner share on record

The survey is in flux and is set to continue so.

Andrew Haldenby: Why now is the time to rally round Jeremy Hunt

Downing Street and Conservative MPs should not abandon this reforming Health Secretary under pressure from the BMA and the unions.

Public sector strikes always hurt the people most

Inflicting added misery and costs isn’t an unfortunate side effect, it’s the explicit intent of the BMA and the tube unions.

More mentally healthy, more strong families, more socially just

What it is that makes old people less likely to be lonely, men less likely to kill themselves, and girls and boys less likely to self-harm.

Our future Tory leader survey feels the Brexit factor as May goes top

Osborne, the most prominent backer of Remain in the poll, sees his place in it plummet from first to fifth.

Next Conservative leader: our poll barely moves

No boost for Osborne from the Autumn Statement.

Cllr Andrew Brown: Doctors and the Government must prevent a strike

It is vital that both sides get back to the negotiating table, with mediators if necessary, to prevent action which will harm patients.

WATCH: Hunt responds to the junior doctors’ strike ballot

The Health Secretary attributes the overwhelming ballot result to a BMA disinformation campaign.

Paul Abbott: The graph that shows why Hunt is right about a Seven Day NHS

The BMA is a trade union that uses public pressure to bargain for higher wages. I don’t begrudge you that. But NHS reforms have to be fair to patients, too.

Iain Dale: Why are we rolling out the red carpet for Sisi – this abuser of human rights?

Plus: The Enemy Within rings me during my LBC programme. Back Hunt – defy the BMA. And: I want to buy Margaret Thatcher’s clothes.

Next Tory leader poll. The tax credits row hits Osborne. His vote slumps as Boris’s soars.

The Chancellor’s share is down by nine per cent and the Mayor’s up by seven per cent.

LISTEN: Hunt presents a “good deal for doctors”

The Health Secretary accuses the BMA of making misleading claims.

Why Hunt might be wary of his sugar tax report

The Government has a sound case against such a regressive measure, but its accommodation of the public health lobby has left it without space to make it properly.

As he prepares to make his speech, Osborne leads our future leader survey for the third month running

The ratings of all those named have scarcely changed – a tribute to the consistency and stability of the survey