Shabbir Lakha spoke to Dr Andrew Meyerson, a striking junior doctor and part of the SOSNHS coalition about the crisis in the NHS and why junior doctors are taking on the Tories
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Shabbir Lakha
Shabbir Lakha is a Stop the War officer, a People's Assembly activist and a member of Counterfire.
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