Labour said Rishi Sunak should focus on resolving junior doctor strikes rather than his rumbling row with Boris Johnson over the former premier’s resignation honours list. 

Mr Sunak claimed earlier this week that Mr Johnson had asked him to overrule the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) after some of his proposed peerages were blocked. 

Mr Johnson then hit back and accused Mr Sunak of “talking rubbish” as the dispute turned into a public slanging match. 

Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, seized on the row this morning as he linked it to a 72-hour walkout over pay by junior doctors which started today.

Mr Streeting told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think the question at this stage having failed to get to a negotiated settlement is where is the Prime Minister? 

“If he has got an hour of his time to sit with Boris Johnson negotiating gongs for cronies and peerages in the House of Lords he should have an hour at least to negotiate an end to these terrible strikes which are causing misery for the doctors involved and even more importantly misery for patients who are seeing their operations delayed and cancelled.”

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