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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie Balls

and Isabelle Hardman. The topic of today on this cold Friday morning is of course the strikes.

Isabelle give us an update on what's been happening. So yesterday we had round one of the nurses

strike which I think is fair to say did not go well for the government. No one was expecting it to

but there was some unexpected things like Chief Nursing Officer turning up on a picket line as we

discussed on yesterday's shots. Two Tory MPs so far Jake Berry and Dr Daniel Poulter have said

that the government needs to pay nurses more even if it's not the circa 19% that the Royal College

of Nursing are demanding. Today we've got rail strike discussions and that actually has

has provided a glimmer of hope because Mick Lynch the Grinch has been saying that there is

possibly room for a compromise and that the union the R&T had prepared to potentially compromise

with the train companies as well. Now the rail strikes are in a sense more politically straightforward

in that while people also rely on their trains to get to work they have less adulation I think it's

fair to say for train drivers than they do for nurses but they're still complicated because

obviously it's it's public transport but it's private companies the government has a role in

the negotiations but it's trying to sort of distance itself as much as possible but I think it's

much easier to get the messaging around disruption out on train strikes and it is with the nursing

strikes. Katie Isabel there mentions the views have done Poulter and Jake Berry to what extent

do you think there's perhaps a split in the Tory ranks on these issues? So I think you can see obviously

the pressure and the fact that as I've been pointed out the government's been trying to put for

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