It is a bitter disappointment that pay negotiations with nurses have failed

Editorial: As has been true since the strikes began last autumn, the only route back to normality for the NHS is via negotiations

Striking nurses hold signs at a picket line outside University College Hospital in London (AFP/Getty)

In his latest propaganda video, titled “Getting results for the British people”, Rishi Sunak lists some of the recent achievements of his premiership. He is right to take some pride in them.

The Anglo-French summit with Emmanuel Macron, for example, and the Windsor Framework for post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland, are both decisive breakthroughs in repairing the UK’s fractured relationships with France and with the wider European Union.

However, the prime minister was somewhat premature in claiming that he’d settled the NHS pay disputes involving a million health service workers.