Burnham warns that NHS will ‘struggle’ to cope if consultants don’t resume talks over pay – as it happened

Monday is often the busiest day of the week at Westminster but, with the Commons still enjoying a mini November recess, today is looking a bit quiet. Andy Burnham is on a visit to a hospital this morning and he wants to talk about a £40m programme in England to try to keep vulnerable patients out of hospital. The Department of Health and Social Care has the details here, and Andrew Gregory explains it all here. GPs to offer 300,000 patients extra support to ease winter strain on NHS But Burnham may find he ends up taking more questions from the media on another Guardian story, Kiran Stacey’s scoop about the government being on course to water down electric vehicle (EV) targets. Labour expected to cut EV targets for UK’s car industry despite MPs’ protests Guardian splash. Photograph: GuardianWith Burnham attending the Cop climate crisis summit later this week, the revelations won’t boost Burnham’s credentials with environmentalists. The final EV decision has not yet been taken, but the Greens are already outraged. These are from Zack Polanski, the Green party leader. double quotation markThis week leaders meet for the UN climate summit. A summer of heat deaths. Scientists saying 2026 will be the hottest year ever. To bend over backwards to the car industry, and scrap plans for rapid electrification. double quotation markThis Government is building up a shocking record of backsliding and bad decisions on climate issues. At a time when we desperately need leadership, they bend to the will of polluters . And this is from the former Green leader Caroline Lucas. double quotation markA truly terrible decision at a truly terrible time. The shift to electric vehicles is government’s single biggest decarbonisation policy. Cutting EV targets would send a message on eve of #COP31 that UK is no longer serious about #climate action. Here is the agenda for the day. Morning: Andy Burnham is visiting a hospital in Hertfordshire. 11.30am: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing. I’m afraid we are no longer able to have comments open below the line every day on this blog. If you want to contact me, please email politics. live@theguardian. com. You can use this email to flag up corrections, comments for publication, questions or complaints. In an interview, Milburn told the paper: double quotation markThe system makes trying a job feel like a gamble many young people can’t afford to take.