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Troublemaker isn't a word that my guests normally use to describe themselves,

but my guest on political thinking this week does use that word to describe herself.

She is the deputy chair of the BMA, the British Medical Association,

which is planning another series of Junior Doctors Strikes.

Emma Rumswick has a life at the age of just 28 of causing trouble for causes that she believes passionately in.

She is shaped also by her experience and experience shared by so many junior doctors

of working on the front line of the NHS during the pandemic of seeing

so many people die so dramatically. Emma Rumswig, welcome to political thinking.

Thank you for having me.

You are called many things and have been since you took up this post.

Militant is one that keeps coming up.

Is that a badge of pride or is it an insult from the tabloid press?

In some ways it's a badge of pride because what they mean by militant is

organized consistent it means that I am one of the many standing up for doctors and

patients in this country against a government and an

NHS situation which is very very difficult so it's not something that I might

necessarily choose for myself but I'm not offended by it in any way. There are other phrases.

Ring leader of a cabal of far-left medics.

Hmm. Interesting.

I mean I don't think that's necessarily true.

Am I left wing?

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