A junior doctor resigned from his post live on television this morning after insisting he and his colleagues have been 'backed into a corner' by health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Dr Ben White quit as a training doctor while being interviewed by Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain.
He said: 'I have taken the decision that I am resigning as a trainee doctor to focus on a legal campaign to fight the contract on behalf of my patients and on behalf of the NHS.'
Asked why it had come to this, he was visibly upset and said: 'I really feel like we have been backed into a corner and there's not a lot of sense coming out of the Government's side of things.
'We have to put patients first and we can see at the moment the understaffing and the underfunding in the NHS.'
Dr White, 33, was on ITV's flagship breakfast programme to discuss tomorrow's junior doctor strike.
Medics will leave A&E departments, maternity units and cancer wards at 9am on Tuesday in protest at the Government's plan to rip up their contracts and impose new hours and pay.
Today, more than 12 leading doctors wrote to David Cameron, urging him to step in 'at the 11th hour' to break the stalemate between junior doctors and the Government - preventing tomorrow's 'damaging' strike.
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