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Secondly, throw into the mix a political rule first invented by The Economist magazine: “Never pick a fight with a profession that appears in a children’s book.”

It allowed Danson to forge ahead with his own career goals, at an age when people in other professions have usually long since retired.

"We desperately need more people to join the profession, but the reality is nursing numbers are going in the wrong direction."

Streeting said the health service would "need to work through with the medical profession what would be a very new way of working".

Pauline Buchanan from the NEU said that teachers had found "themselves once again as the lowest paid members of the profession across these islands".