Keir Starmer was left stuttering and repeating himself because the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg needed to ask him eight instances whether or not he would give into docs’ pay calls for and supply them a pricey pay rise past the six per cent introduced by Rishi Sunak this week.

The Labour chief spent minutes blaming the Tories’ report, giving excuses like him ‘not being in the room’, refusing to present hypothetical solutions and vaguely promising to ‘grow the economy’, all whereas avoiding giving a straight reply to the straight query.

While the Government’s pay supply this week went down nicely with many public sector employees, together with lecturers, docs unions threatened but extra strikes over their six per cent pay supply.

The BMA stated the federal government is “driving doctors away” from the NHS over low pay, and the Royal College of Nursing threatened extra walkouts consequently.

Rishi Sunak has stated that the supply is last and that “no amount of strikes” will change his thoughts, because the Government battles to drive down inflation.

Despite the excessive profile debate, it appears Keir Starmer has no view on the subject.

Ms Kuenssberg started his widely-anticipated Sunday morning interview by asking what he would do on this state of affairs as Prime Minister.

He replied: “This is the federal government’s drawback; they pretty much as good as broke our public providers, they’ve created a state of affairs during which wages have been stagnant for a lot of, a few years."

Ms Kuenssberg cut him: “But what would you do differently in that situation?”

Sir Keir continued: “They need to sort out this mess”

She bluntly asked: “How?”

He tried again: “I would do this differently, by growing the economy. We have to grow, grow, grow our economy”.

She interjected again: “You’ve said that already, but the specific question: if you were PM right now - it’s exactly the kind of problem that might face you, a pay dispute with a big powerful union, the doctors say they will not accept it, Rishi Sunak says no more negotiating - what would you do? Do you back the junior doctors, or do you back the PM?”

Sir Keir once again dodged the question: “We would be be around the table negotiating and we would settle this dispute, I think many people would say ‘why has it taken this long even to have one step towards progress?’ Because many people have had their operations cancelled, many people have been deeply affected by these strikes”

Ms Kuenssberg cut in yet again: “So right now if you were PM, you would keep negotiating?”

“You would keep negotiating and the implication of that is you would offer them more.”

He refused three more times to answer the simple question, with the BBC politics star resorting to stating some viewers will likely be left with raised eyebrows after the person vying to be Prime Minister isn't desirous to “wade in” to an necessary debate.

Responding to the toe-curling interview, senior Conservative MP Simon Clarke stated: “Keir Starmer says he would “negotiate” with the militant BMA”.

“The more appropriate word would be “capitulate” - if he means to supply them what they need (how?) or extra probably “dissimulate” if (as he's really doing) he’s pretending he might/would supply extra with no plan to take action.”